St. Luke's Episcopal Church, also known as The Rock Church, is a historic Episcopal church located at 604 Morgan Road in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story Mission Gothic style solid masonry church. It has a gabled roof that is intersected by gabled transepts and a pointed arch tracery stained glass window. A stained-glass window at St. Luke's was given by Lily Morehead Mebane in memory of her mother, Mary Lily Connally Morehead.[2] It features a three-stage crenellated corner tower.[3]
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| Location | 604 Morgan Rd., Eden, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°31′1″N 79°45′39″W / 36.51694°N 79.76083°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architect | J.W. Hopper; Jim Chatham |
| Architectural style | Mission Gothic |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000177[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 17, 1989 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Resurrection window, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Eden, North Carolina.
- ^ Linda Harris Edmiston (September 1988). "St. Luke's Episcopal Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
