{"nrhp_refnum":"82004572","name":"St. Paul's Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"605 Clay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynchburg (Independent City)","county":"Lynchburg","state":"VA","lat":37.41516374100007,"lon":-79.14724177399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Paul's Church is a Romanesque-style granite and brownstone Episcopal church at 605 Clay Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, built in 1891-95 to a design by Frank Miles Day, with a 1912 parish house.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Virginia's major examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, larger and more architecturally important than most late 19th-century Episcopal churches in the state. It reflects a period of growth and prosperity in Lynchburg and a congregation of business and professional leaders. It also houses the city's oldest Episcopal parish, founded in 1822, and is an early work of architect Frank Miles Day.","narrative":"St. Paul's Church at 605 Clay Street in Lynchburg is a Romanesque Episcopal church built between 1891 and 1895. Its rock-faced gray granite walls, quarried in Southwest Virginia, are trimmed sparingly with brownstone. A corner tower, a massive rounded entrance arch and shallow transepts give the building a rugged, simple massing. Inside, the nave follows a Latin cross plan with Romanesque arches, an open-timber roof and stained-glass windows in the style of Louis Comfort Tiffany, though that attribution is unconfirmed. Architect Frank Miles Day of Philadelphia published the design in 1891. The tower was completed in 1912 by the Lynchburg firm Burnham and Lewis, who altered Day's belfry design and also designed the parish house. The church is the home of Lynchburg's oldest Episcopal parish, founded in 1822, and is regarded as the parent of the city's other Episcopal congregations. It was considered significant as a major Virginia example of Richardsonian Romanesque design and as part of a group of notable late 19th-century churches.","period_of_significance":"1891-95","architect_builder":"Frank Miles Day (architect); Burnham and Lewis (architects of the 1912 tower top stages and parish house)","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition; occupied and in religious use, maintained by an active congregation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.907342-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/6817/41681747/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004572/d94b12b7d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004572/d94b12b7d7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pauls_Church_Lynchburg_Nov_08.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pauls_Church_Lynchburg_Nov_08.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681747","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Lynchburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lynchburg/st-pauls-church-82004572/"}