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1680
The congregation dates from 1680, the oldest in South Carolina
Established in 1680, St. Philip's is the oldest European-American religious congregation in South Carolina. The first church, a wooden building, was built between 1680 and 1681. A hurricane damaged it in 1710, and a new church on Church Street was finished in 1723.
Rebuilt
The church of 1723 burned in 1835 and the present one went up at once
The church finished in 1723 burned to the ground in 1835. Work on the present church began that same year and was completed the next. The steeple was added between 1848 and 1850. Its tower follows the Wren-Gibbs tradition, with three Tuscan pedimented porticoes.
The light
The tower served as a rear range light for the harbor from 1893 to 1915
The tower served for many years as the rear tower of a set of range lighthouses guiding mariners into Charleston's harbor. The front tower was on Fort Sumter. The light was used from 1893 to 1915, and temporarily again in 1921.
Two women
Two women artists of colonial America were tied to the church
Henrietta Johnston, the wife of an early rector, Gideon Johnston, became the first recorded female artist in the American colonies. Mary Roberts, the first female American miniaturist, was connected to the church and was buried there in 1761.
The graveyard
The churchyard holds John C. Calhoun and Edward Rutledge
Burials in the church graveyard include John C. Calhoun, the seventh vice-president of the United States, and Edward Rutledge, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Christopher Gadsden and Charles Pinckney are also buried there.
Day 2, afternoon
It comes after Joseph Manigault House. Then Dock Street Theatre.
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