Floyd Presbyterian Church
church building in Virginia, United States of America
Floyd Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located on U.S. 221 in Floyd, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1850, and is a one-story, three-bay, brick church in the Greek Revival style. It has a front gable roof topped by a low steeple and octagonal spire. The front facade features four white-painted stuccoed, Greek Doric order pilasters. The church was abandoned by its congregation in October, 1974, and the congregation relocated.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Floyd Historic District.
“Floyd Presbyterian Church” enters the record as church building in Virginia, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Floyd, Presbyterian and Church can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5462513. Authority coordinates are 36.911, -80.318. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1850, 1974 and 1976.
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