St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Gothic Revival church in Lee County, United States
St. Philip's Episcopal Church is a Carpenter Gothic church built in 1840 in the High Hills of Santee at Bradford Springs, about six miles north of Dalzell. Its front gable holds a pointed arch window instead of the circular rose window usual in this style. The church is no longer an active parish and is kept up by descendants of the original members with help from the diocese.
St. Philip's Episcopal Church was built in 1840, when the site lay in Sumter County, as an early example of Carpenter Gothic architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1996. The parish is no longer active in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina; local descendants of the original members maintain the church with help from the diocese.
St. Philip's Cemetery is part of the National Register designation and holds the grave of the Rev. Charles Pinckney Elliott, the church's first rector. The church itself is no longer an active Episcopal parish; descendants of the original members keep it up with help from the diocese.
The church stands in the rural High Hills of Santee at Bradford Springs, about six miles north of Dalzell in Lee County; a car is needed to reach it. The parish is no longer active, so visits depend on the local descendants who maintain the church and cemetery with help from the diocese.
The front gable holds a pointed arch window instead of the circular rose window usual in Carpenter Gothic churches, a detail noted when the building was listed on the National Register on April 17, 1996. The cemetery within the designation holds the grave of the Rev. Charles Pinckney Elliott, the parish's first rector.
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