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36°51′26″N 80°29′00″W / 36.85722°N 80.48333°W / 36.85722; -80.48333
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Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Willis Presbyterian Church in 2016
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located in Virginia
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located in the United States
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Location5733 Floyd Highway, S., Willis, Virginia
Coordinates 36°51′26″N 80°29′00″W / 36.85722°N 80.48333°W / 36.85722; -80.48333
Area1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built1954
Architect Lyle, Stanley
Architectural style Gothic Revival
MPS Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS
NRHP reference  No. 07000226 [1]
VLR  No.031-0045
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 2007
Designated VLRMarch 30, 2007 [2]

Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, also known as Grace Baptist Church, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1954, and is one of six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress and built between 1919 and the early 1950s. The building consists of a one-story, gable-fronted rectangular form with a roughly square, Gothic Revival bell tower on the building's northeast corner. The building was erected on a poured concrete foundation, and has walls of light framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Randle Brim; John Kern & Michael Pulice (December 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos

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