{"nrhp_refnum":"79003286","name":"Christ and St. Luke's Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"560 W. Olney Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk (Independent City)","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.85973626400005,"lon":-76.29790373099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone Gothic Revival church at 560 West Olney Road in Norfolk, Virginia, built in 1909-1910 as Christ Church, with an attached parish house and a bookstore on a one-and-a-half-acre lot.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Virginia's outstanding examples of the Late Gothic Revival and among the purest expressions of Gothic architecture in the state. It was designed in the English Perpendicular style by the Philadelphia firm Watson and Huckle. The congregation descends from the earliest Episcopal church in Elizabeth River Parish, and the interior statuary and stained glass depict the history of the Episcopal Church.","narrative":"Christ and St. Luke's Church sits at West Olney Road and Stockley Gardens in Norfolk. Built in 1909-1910 as Christ Church, it is a long, narrow building of rough-faced random ashlar designed in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style by the Philadelphia firm Watson and Huckle, which specialized in church architecture. A four-stage entrance and bell tower, carved quatrefoils, statues in niches and stained-glass windows with panel tracery mark the exterior. Inside, the Newton Memorial reredos and the Selden Memorial Chapel hold statues of bishops, saints and other figures from Episcopal history. A parish house and a bungalow-style bookstore share the lot. The congregation traces its roots to a parish established at Sewell's Point in 1637 and took its present name in 1935, when St. Luke's merged with Christ Church. The church was recognized as one of Virginia's finest examples of the twentieth-century Gothic Revival, valued for its carved detail, stained glass and statuary.","period_of_significance":"1909-1910","architect_builder":"Watson & Huckle","architectural_style":"English Perpendicular Gothic Revival (Late Gothic Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied, in use as a church; the interior retains its original furniture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.886991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/6821/41682181/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003286.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003286/d9918536ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003286/d9918536ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kurt Taylor Gaubatz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%26SL-Norfolk.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurt Taylor Gaubatz</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%26SL-Norfolk.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_and_St._Luke%27s_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16826686"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/christ-and-st-lukes-church-79003286/"}