Flint Hill Baptist Church

Flint Hill Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in 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] the grave is noted with a marker in the Civil War Trails series.[5]

Flint Hill Baptist Church
Flint Hill Baptist Church in May, 2016
Location0.3 mi N of jct. of US 522 and VA 729, Flint Hill, Virginia
Coordinates38°45′50″N 78°6′1″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1854 (1854)
Architectural styleLate Victorian
Part ofFlint Hill Historic District (ID11001070)
NRHP reference No.97001509[1]
VLR No.078-0066
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 1, 1997
Designated CPJanuary 27, 2012
Designated VLRJuly 2, 1997[2]

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. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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
  5. "Albert Gallatin Willis Marker". Retrieved 25 May 2016.


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