Leigh Street Baptist Church, also known as Church Hill Presbyterian Church, is a historic

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Church Hill North Historic District The Church Hill North Historic District is a historic district in Richmond, Virginia, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. An expansion of the district was listed in 2000. This added to the original The orig ...

which is in

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. It was designed by architect Samuel Sloan and built between 1854 and 1857. It is a three-story,

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style

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ed brick structure. It features a Grecian Doric, pedimented

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with six fluted columns and a full entablature which continues around the side of the church. Additions were made in 1911, 1917, and 1930. an
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in 1972. In 2021, the Baptist congregation transferred its building to Church Hill Presbyterian Church, a church plant of the

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References

External links

Church Hill Presbyterian Church website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival church buildings in Virginia Churches completed in 1857 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States Presbyterian Church in America churches in Virginia Churches in Richmond, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia 1857 establishments in Virginia Samuel Sloan buildings Former Baptist church buildings in the United States Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{Virginia-church-stub