Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Marion Johnson Dimmock, Architectural drawings and plans, Immanual Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1903. Accession 36597, Drawings and plans collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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Biographical/Historical Information

Marion Johnson Dimmock was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1824 and moved to Richmond in 1833. He served in the Confederate Army, attaining the rank of captain. He became one of the most prolific Virginia architects in the period 1870-1900. Among his more prominant commissions during this period were the Confederate Memorial Chapel (1887), a hotel in Elkton, Virginia (1890), Richmond Chamber of Commerce Building (1891-1892), Mortuary Chapel in Hollywood Cemetery (1897-1898), and an addition to the State Library Building (Dimmock & Lee, 1908).

Scope and Content

These seven blueprints show sections, elevations, and plans for a Romanesque Revival church located at the intersection of Fifth and Leigh Streets in Richmond, Virginia. Marion J. Dimmock typically used this auditorium-style for his ecclesiastical designs. The design features a battlemented tower, an arcaded front entry, corner buttress with obelisk-like tower, and stone belt courses. This building was later used as Leigh Methodist Church, but demolished some time in the latter 20th century.