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Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic
Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
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located near
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,
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. It was the first of the 5 "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1929, and is a rock-faced frame building with a nave plan and front and rear transepts. The nave measures 33 feet wide and 80 feet long. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof covered with standing seam sheet metal. The contributing Cemetery has a continuous wall of mortared quartzitic
fieldstone Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction mate ...
s, matching the church exterior. an
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/ref> Roanoke Times March 4, 2009 It was added to the
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in 2007.


See also

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Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Church (building), church located near Fancy Gap, Virginia, Fancy Gap, Patrick County, Virginia. It is one of the "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. I ...
* Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery * Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery * Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery


References


External links


Official Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church Website
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External links

* {{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Churches completed in 1929 20th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Churches in Carroll County, Virginia Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
Presbyterian churches in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Virginia