St. Bernard Church and Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic church and cemetery near Camden, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1909, and is a rectangular gable-roofed, one-story frame structure in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story entrance bell tower. The property includes the church cemetery; it includes the grave of Father Thomas Aquinas Quirk (1845–1937). Most of the settlers in the region, including the congregants of the church, were of Irish descent.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[2]
References
- 1.Rodney S. Collins (February 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Bernard Church and Cemetery" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- 2."National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.