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St. Mark's Episcopal Church

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1838; 1966 addition. 111 S. Roanoke St.
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (HABS/photo by Tim Buchman)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

This church is an early example of the use in Virginia of Gothic Revival elements on a conventional colonial form. The pedimented gable-front facade has a pointed-arch central entrance flanked by pointed-arch windows, and a square bell tower with a spire. The three-bay interior is colonial in design and has a balcony at the entrance end that extends around the sides. A parish hall in the same style as the church was added to the side of the church in 1966. Across the street, the Thompson-Carper House (c. 1830; later additions) began as a Federal three-bay, two-story, center-passage brick house to which a frame section was added in 1880.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
Coordinator: 
Anne Carter Lee
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Data

Timeline

  • 1838

    built

  • 1966

    addition

What's Nearby

Roanoke Street Commercial Buildings
Botetourt County Courthouse
Figgatt Law Offices and House
Historic Fincastle Baptist Church
Fincastle United Methodist Church

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "St. Mark's Episcopal Church", [Fincastle, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-BO04.

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