Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery | |
![]() Steele Creek Presbyterian Church | |
Location | 7407 Steele Creek Rd., near Charlotte, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°11′3″N 80°57′23″W / 35.18417°N 80.95639°W |
Area | 17 acres (6.9 ha) |
Built | 1889 |
Architect | Norris, H.J.; Bigham Workshop |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
MPS | Rural Mecklenburg County MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 91000082 [1] |
Added to NRHP | February 21, 1991 |
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763. [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
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