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275 Meeting Street (Trinity Methodist Church) |
Scope & Content |
Constructed 1848-50. Edward C. Jones, architect. Perhaps the least altered of Charleston's late-Greek Revival church buildings, Trinity was actually constructed for the Third (later Westminster) Presbyterian Church. Often compared to the Church of the Madeleine in Paris and its predecessor the Mason Carré at Nimes, primarily due to its monumental Corinthian-columned portico and massive dual flight of stone steps, the building nonetheless reflects its region with its large winding and contemporary technology with its cast column capitals. Inside the church's louvered shutters over the tall windoews, open galleries, and central apse, decorated with molded plaster anthemions and other embellishments and flanked by four Corinthian columns, portends the end of the simplicity of the Greek and the emergence of the Roman Revival and the more elaborate styles of the late antebellum period. In 1926 the Trinity Methodist congregation, sited at Hasell Street and Maiden Lane since 1792, purchased the building when Westminster Presbyterian Church moved to an uptown location. The Trinity congregation brought with them a large Tiffany window donated in memory of George Walton Williams, builder of the Calhoun Mansion, installing it in an existing chapel at the southwest end of the church. File contains newspaper article aobut church's restoration (1957); building history from Architectural Guide to Charleston (by Simons & Thomas). |
Subjects |
Trinity United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) Church buildings--South Carolina--Charleston |
Search Terms |
Meeting Street Ansonborough Churches/Synagogues/Houses of Worship |
Physical Description |
1 File Folder |
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Object ID # |
MEETING.275.1 |