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Clear Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Tennessee, US

Clear Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Clear Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic church of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination in McMinn County, Tennessee, about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Calhoun. The church building, which is no longer in use, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Clear Spr

ings congregation formed in the late 1830s or early 1840s, originally calling itself Pleasant Hill Church. The "Clear Springs" name was adopted in the 1850s. Before completing its church building in 1860, the congregation conducted services in a large camp meeting shelter. The building is a single-story gable-front church with a one-room sanctuary that measures 40 feet (12 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m). Its square wooden steeple, which has wood vents and a pyramidal roof, holds the church's original bell. The building has multi-light windows, wooden shutters, and wide board walls. When the church was in active use, it was heated by a pot-bellied stove that sat in the center of the sanctuary. The congregation became inactive in the decades before and after World War II, although its building continued to be maintained and saw periodic use for weddings, homecomings, and other special occasions. In...

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