Emmanuel Church

Emmanuel Church was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on January 20, 1981 and the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982.

Narrative from Virginia Landmarks Registry

"Since its founding in the mid-19th century, Emmanuel Episcopal Church has served parishioners living on western Albemarle County estates, among them the Langhorne family at nearby Mirador. Nancy Langhorne, later Lady Astor, became involved with the congregation’s mission work in the early 20th century. In 1911, along with her brothers and sisters, she commissioned the fashionable Washington architect and former Albemarle County resident Waddy Wood to remodel the original ca. 1863 Greek Revival country church into a very learned adaptation of Virginia’s colonial ecclesiastical architecture. The project was essentially a complete rebuilding, and the outcome, especially the finely crafted interior fittings, is an exemplar of the refinement and craftsmanship associated with the best of the early Georgian Revival style. Among those buried in the churchyard is Lady Astor’s niece, Nancy Lancaster, noted interior designer."

External Links

• Nomination form
• Official website