Church of the Holy Trinity
SC 13 and SC 29, Ridgeland, South Carolina
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Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity, constructed ca. 1858, is the third building associated with an Episcopal congregation formed in the early years of the nineteenth century by Grahamville planters. The church is architecturally significant as a notable example of the Carpenter Gothic style. The style developed as a carpenter’s interpretations of the English Gothic Revival architecture of the early nineteenth century, with the masonry designs of the English architects translated into wooden construction. The proportions of the church, the asymmetrical composition, the wheel window, and the buttressed tower are exemplary of the Gothic Revival; the interpretation of these elements in wood, along with board and batten sheathing of the church, are typical of Carpenter Gothic. The three-staged bell tower has an exterior entrance to the stairway leading to the gallery, which was the old slave gallery and which now houses the pipe organ. The interior is especially noteworthy for its hammer-beam timber ceiling, and for its nineteenth century yellow pine furnishings. The church is set in a grove of large live oaks, which were set out in the nineteenth century by the ladies of the congregation. These trees add considerably to the visual appearance of the church. Listed in the National Register March 25, 1982. - SCDAHNational Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 1982
- Reference number
- 82003869
- Architectural style
- Other architectural type; Carpenter Gothic
- Area of significance
- Architecture
- Level of significance
- State
- Evaluation criteria
- C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- Religious structure
- Current function
- Religious structure
- Period of significance
- 1850-1874
- Significant year
- ca. 1858
- Number of properties
- Contributing buildings: 1
Non-contributing buildings: 2
Update Log
- September 17, 2014: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "Description" & "Street View" and Imported Photo
- September 17, 2014: Photo imported by Michael Miller
Sources
- Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History
- National Register database - Reference number 82003869 (Search for documents)
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