St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Cowles Street between Woodland Boulevard and West Street in

Wilkesboro, North Carolina Wilkesboro is a town in and the county seat of Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,687 at the 2020 census. The town is located along the south bank of the Yadkin River, directly opposite the town of North Wilkesboro. ...

. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1982 as a Historic Place in Wilkes County, North Carolina. St. Paul's was built in 1848 and is the most important example of the Gothic Revival style in Wilkesboro as well as being a typical example of many American Episcopal churches built during the mid nineteenth century. A small brick structure, the church incorporates many Gothic features which bear similarity with those of English medieval parish churches; these include a steep gable roof, corner buttresses,

lancet arch Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It ...

ed windows and doors, and plentiful Gothic interior detailing.

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Church website
Episcopal church buildings in North Carolina Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Anglican cemeteries in the United States Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina Churches completed in 1848 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Wilkes County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wilkes County, North Carolina {{WilkesCountyNC-NRHP-stub