Flint Hill Baptist Church

Flint Hill Baptist Church

Flint Hill Baptist Church in May, 2016
Location 0.3 mi N of jct. of US 522 and VA 729, Flint Hill, Virginia
Coordinates 38°45′50″N 78°6′1″W / 38.76389°N 78.10028°W / 38.76389; -78.10028Coordinates: 38°45′50″N 78°6′1″W / 38.76389°N 78.10028°W / 38.76389; -78.10028
Area less than one acre
Built 1854 (1854)
Architectural style Late Victorian
Part of Flint Hill Historic District (#11001070)
NRHP Reference # 97001509[1]
VLR # 078-0066
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 1, 1997
Designated CP January 27, 2012
Designated VLR July 2, 1997[2]

Flint Hill Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Flint Hill, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1854, and expanded and remodeled in the 1890s in the Late Victorian style. The original section is a one-story, gable-roofed, frame and weatherboard, rectangular structure. Later additions are the front entrance tower topped with a belfry and Sunday school rooms to the rear. It features six stained-glass windows. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.[3] Among those buried in the churchyard is Confederate Private Albert Gallatin Willis, one of Mosby's Rangers and a seminarian who offered himself for execution in the place of a married comrade-in-arms;[4][5] the grave is noted with a marker in the Civil War Trails series.[6]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, and included in the Flint Hill Historic District in 2012.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Arland F. Welch (April 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flint Hill Baptist Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ "Albert Gallatin Willis J-26 - Marker History". Marker History. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Rachel Turner. "No Greater Love - The story of the hanging of Albert Willis". Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Albert Gallatin Willis Marker". Retrieved 25 May 2016.


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