Yorkminster Presbyterian Church's Campus Improvement Project

This page reports on the progress to build a new Fellowship Center at Yorkminster Presbyterian Church's campus in Yorktown, Virginia.

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Project Images

Interior - Cornerstone - Building - Pond - Groundbreaking - Renderings

Interior pictures

Interior outfitting of the new building continues, with a completion now scheduled for early November. Here are some shots of the interior in various stages of completion.
Interior shots, July 27	Interior shots, Sept. 22

Laying the cornerstone - Sept. 10, 2006

On Sunday, September 10, 2006, the congregation of Yorkminster Presbyterian Church closed their 10:45 AM worship service with the placement of the cornerstone to the new Fellowship Center. A time capsule was placed in the block, containing several items of historic interest.

The building cornerstone and copper time capsule

Attendees at the cornerstone service

Construction of Fellowship Center Building

Construction of the Fellowship Center foundation began with the undercutting of 14" of soil, followed by backfilling with 400 cubic yards of sand. This will give the new building a firm, dry, stable foundation. Next, the concrete piers were poured, and forms were placed for the footings along all sides of the eventual slab. Conduits were placed in the foundation slab for future plumbing, electrical and communications lines. The integrated foundation and slab were poured on March 2nd; more photos of 'concrete day' are here. Further construction events are outlined on the building time lapse page.

Construction of Settlement Pond

Construction of the first part of the new driveway and the settling pond began in early December and was completed on January 26. More images of the pond construction sequence are available on the pond time lapse page.

Groundbreaking - Nov. 13, 2005

On Sunday, November 13, 2005, Co-pastors Jenny and Feild Russell led a groundbreaking ceremony with close to 200 church members and invited guests, who helped turn over the first dirt for our new site!
Bulldozer at work - picture by Courtney Cromie	Jenny introduces invited guests available as a Quicktime Movie (5.3 MB)
Associate Pastor Courtney Cromie and others took more than 80 pictures of the groundbreaking event; the complete set of photos is available in our Photo Gallery.

Renderings

The drawings below depict a roughly 14,000 sq. ft. Fellowship Center with a large multipurpose room, a 1,500 sq. ft. kitchen, a stage, lobby, showers, small office, and a convertible conference room/two room classroom space.
Updated rendering with correct roof color and no connector Available as a JPEG (860 KB) image
View from parking lot (wrong roof color; future connector) Available as a JPEG (364 KB) image	Overhead view (wrong roof color; future connector shown) Available as a JPEG (495 KB) image
Floor plan Available as a PDF (48 KB) or JPEG (160 KB) image	Cutaway rendering Available as a JPEG (102 KB) image only

You can contact us at building@yorkminsterpc.org; we welcome feedback from the congregation.