St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Charleston, South Carolina)

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caption = St. Philip's Episcopal Church
location= 146 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 46
lat_seconds = 44.97
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 79
long_minutes = 55
long_seconds = 45.03
long_direction = W
locmapin = South Carolina
area =
built =1835-1836, building; steeple, 1848-1850
architect= Joseph Hyde, building; Edward Brickell White, steeple
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= November 07, 1973cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1383&ResourceType=Building
title=St. Philip's Episcopal Church |accessdate=2008-03-23|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 07, 1973cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=73001695

St. Philip's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina. Its National Historic Landmark description states: "Built in 1836 (spire completed in 1850), this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition. Three Tuscan pedimented porticoes contribute to this design to make a building of the highest quality and sophistication." On November 07, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark. [ [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710072/index.htm St. Philip's Episcopal Church at South Carolina Department of Archives and History] ] citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/73001695.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: St. Philip's Episcopal Church] |32 KB|date=April 23, 1973 |author=Tray Stephenson and Bernard Kearse |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/73001695.pdf "Accompanying two photos, exterior, from 1960"] |32 KB] St. Philip's is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. [ [http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/spce/welcome St. Philip's Episcopal Church website] ]

History

Established in 1681, St. Philip's is the oldest religious congregation in South Carolina. The first St. Philip's Church, a wooden building, was built between 1680 and 1681 at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets on the present day site of St. Michael's Episcopal Church. It was damaged in a hurricane in 1710 and a new St. Phillip's Church was begun a few blocks away on Church Street. After being delayed it was finished in 1723 but burned to the ground in 1835. Work on the present church was begun that same year and completed the next. The steeple was added between 1848 and 1850. [ [http://www.stmichaelschurch.net/02c_history.php St. Michael's Episcopal Church history] ] [ [http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/spce/history St. Philip's Episcopal Church history] ]

A prominent early rector of St. Philip's was Rev. Thomas Frost, a fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, who became rector of St. Philip's in 1785. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=7SoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157&dq=charleston+south+carolina+st.+philips+church+frost Frank Ravenel Frost, Man of Mark in South Carolina, Vol. II, James Calvin Hemphill, Men of Mark Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1908] ] Rev. Frost died in 1804 at 46 years of age. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4BMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA31&dq=charleston+south+carolina+st.+philips+church+frost#PPA31,M1 Frost Family in England and America, with Special Reference to Edmund Frost, Thomas Gold Frost, Edward Lysander Frost, Russell Printing Company, Buffalo, 1909] ] Rev. Thomas Downes Frost, son of the first rector Frost, was elected assistant minister of St. Philip's on March 12, 1815. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=oK5NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA571&dq=charleston+south+carolina+st.+philips+church+frost Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1912] ] The second Rev. Frost died an early death at age 26 in 1819.

ee also

*List of Registered Historic Places in South Carolina
*List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina
*St. Philip's Episcopal Church

References

External links

* [http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/spce/welcome St. Philip's Episcopal Church website]
* [http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/spce/history St. Philip's Episcopal Church history]
* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710072/index.htm St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charleston County (146 Church St., Charleston)] , including 9 photos, at South Carolina Department of Archives and History
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.sc0167 St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church, 146 Church Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC: 45 photos and 3 data pages] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1383&ResourceType=Building National Historic Landmarks Program listing for St. Philip's Episcopal Church]
* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710006/index.htm National Register listings for Charleston County]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/charleston/ Historic Charleston's Religious and Community Buildings, a National Park Service "Discover Our Shared Heritage" Travel Itinerary]