Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery | |
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Location | 7407 Steele Creek Rd., near Charlotte, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°11′3″N 80°57′23″W / 35.18417°N 80.95639°WCoordinates: 35°11′3″N 80°57′23″W / 35.18417°N 80.95639°W |
Area | 17 acres (6.9 ha) |
Built | 1889 |
Architect | Norris, H.J.; Bigham Workshop |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
MPS | Rural Mecklenburg County MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 91000082[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 21, 1991 |
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
Steele Creek Cemetery
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Richard Mattson and William Huffman (July 1990). "Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
Categories:
- Churches in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Presbyterian churches in North Carolina
- Cemeteries in North Carolina
- Protestant Reformed cemeteries
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina
- Churches completed in 1889
- 19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- 1889 establishments in North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
- North Carolina church stubs