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Saint Luke's Church
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Christ and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, 560 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia. Christ and Saint Luke’s is an historic, urban parish. Built in 1909, is 100 years old. The architecture is of the 14th to the 16th century, characterized by a long, narrow building of rough-faced random ashlars in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. The plan of the church is that of a traditional gable-roof basilica.
As a parish church it was established in Norfolk at Sewell's Point in 1637. The church later roved to Church Street and in 1739 was renamed the Borough Church. It was then the only church of Elizabeth River Parish. In 1788 a congregational split occurred separation the followers of William Bland (the minority) and Alexander Whitehead. Bland was subsequently "degraded" from the ministry by Bishop Madison, and the Whitehead contingent was recognized as the rightful representatives of the Norfolk Borough Church at the Diocesan Convention in 1790. In 1800 the Whitehead group left the 1739 building and erected a new church across the street, renaming it "Christ Church". This building was destroyed by fire in 1827 and was replaced by a Greek revival building on Freemason Street which the congregation abandoned in 1910 for its new Gothic edifice on West Olney Road.
To find more on the architecture and history of this Church go to the National Register of Historic Places online here at: http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Norfolk/122-0075_Christ_and_St_Luke's_Church_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf
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