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The Presbyterian Church
102 Huffman Avenue
In 1883, the Ebenezer Prebytery asked Dr. James Hendrick of Fleminburg and Dr. W.C. Condit of Ashland to survey the Big Sandy Valley. They met with the citizens of Pikeville in the Methodist Church and decided to organize the Presbyterian Church. Although certainly not the earliest church in Pikeville, The Presbyterian Church was responsbile for bringing the first organized approach to Christian education to Pike County in the formation of the Pikeville Collegiate Institute in Pikeville in 1888. Built in 1908-1910 and occupying a conspicuous position overlooking the Pikeville City Park , this Gothic Revival church boasts ususual glass windows and is one of two original brick churches in the downtown. The Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church both have gabled roofs and towers on the front facade. The Presbyterian Church tower is two story, capped with stone crenalations, and the Gothic windows have especially fine glass.
The main window at the rear of the nave is a composite of four rectangular windows with interlacing intrados above framing a large equilateral arch. Overall it is 17 feet high and 14 feet wide, it shows influence of the Germanic school by extending a composition (in this instance a copy of Bernard Plockhorst painting, "The Good Shepherd") across the natural division of the wooden jambs. The other windows are 33 inches x 97 inches with painted arches at the top, all have opperable sash sections with cast brass hardware.
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