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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Churches in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Museums in Virginia Beach, Virginia, St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia), Bruton Parish Church, Culture in Virginia Beach, St. John's Episcopal Church (Hampton, Virginia), Norwegian Lady Statues, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church (Norfolk, Virginia), Cape Henry Light, Old Donation Episcopal Church, Basilica of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Norfolk, Adam Thoroughgood House, Neptune Festival, Virginia Aquarium, Jamestown Church, Old Coast Guard Station Museum, Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Laurel Avenue Church of Christ. Excerpt: St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia St Luke's Church is a fine example of a post-Protestant Reformation church showing Gothicizing details. The plan is that of a simple single room (29'4 and 3/4" X 65'7 3/4") with a twenty-foot-square tower at the west end. Its three-foot-thick walls are laid in a rough Flemish bond. Buttresses project prominently from three bays of the north and south walls. They have sloping set-offs. At both the east and west end of the church are crow-stepped gables, while unadorned turrets, corbeiled slightly at their bases, decorate the corners of the building. The Gothic details are seen in the stepped buttresses, the division of the round-topped windows by arches to form Y-tracery, and the use of arches both round and segmental in the east window to create an impression of Gothic tracery. These details have been created in brick. About 99% of the brick in the church today is original. The interior appointments of St. Luke's were not added until a number of years after completion of the fabric of the building. After 1657, Colonel Joseph Bridger commissioned Charles and Thomas Driver to comp... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9048862