Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Powhatan, Virginia)
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Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic
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located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built between 1842 and 1850, and is a one-story, vernacular
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brick church building painted white. It features a stepped gable parapet, a half-octagonal apse which served as a vestry, and four tall window bays interspaced with slim buttresses. an
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/ref> It also contains a cemetery in the back yard and north side of the church. It was added to the
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in 1990.


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