Diamond Hill Baptist Church | |
Location | 1415 Grace St., Lynchburg, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°24′27″N 79°8′37″W / 37.40750°N 79.14361°W |
Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1937 |
Architect | Lewis Bolling |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 11000026 [1] |
VLR No. | 118-0060-0057 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | February 22, 2011 |
Designated VLR | December 16, 2010 [2] |
Diamond Hill Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Lynchburg, Virginia. It was built in 1886, and is a three-story, L-shaped, brick church building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It has brick buttresses capped with limestone, Gothic pointed arched windows, a three-story entrance tower with steeple, and a jerkinhead roof. From 1958 to 1963 the pastor was Virgil Wood, the pastor most associated with the Civil Rights Movement in Lynchburg. [3]
Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, [1] it is located in the Diamond Hill Historic District.