Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic
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church
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located near
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,
Floyd County, Virginia
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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
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s, matching the church exterior.
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''Accompanying two photos''
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2007.
See also
* 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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{{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
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Presbyterian churches in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Virginia