Biggin Church Ruins

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Biggin Church Ruins (1940)

Biggin Church Ruins or Biggins Church in the Geographic Names Information System are the ruins of a church in Berkeley County , South Carolina , United States . These are located approximately two miles from Moncks Corner at the intersection of South Carolina State Route 402 and State Highway 8-376. The church has burned down three times since the foundation stone was first laid in 1711. It was the parish church of St. John's parish in Berkeley. The ruins belong to the structure built in 1761, which was rebuilt in 1781; they were added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1977 .

history

The site of the ruined church may have been named after Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley . The Parish of St. John’s , Berkeley, was created by a 1704 South Carolina Assembly Act and the Church Act of 1706. St. John's was then the largest of the original ten Parishs in the province, which fulfilled both religious and civil functions in the colony. Land for the church was provided by Landgrave John Colleton.

The first church was built around 1711 to replace a wooden structure that previously existed here and was used for prayer. This church burned down in a forest fire around 1755.

The next church on this site was built in 1761. Henry Laurens and William Moultrie were among the parishioners during this period . During the American Revolutionary War , British troops used the church as a depot. When they retired in 1781, they burned the building down. The ruins were rebuilt.

The church was used until the Civil War . During the war, the furniture disappeared and the building was damaged. After the war, nobody cared about the church, which fell victim to a forest fire again around 1886 1890 or during the 1890s. After that, the bricks of the building were partially broken out and used for other structures.

architecture

The church was originally a rectangular brick building that was about nine meters wide and eighteen meters long and was bricked in the English composite . Only two of the walls have survived, one of which includes the presumed main entrance. The wide portal with is flanked by two windows on either side. These are arched windows with brick vaulted stones. In the other wall at one end of the church there is a door with windows to the left and right of it. In one corner there are still corner stones and a water drainage strip, a horizontal protruding band made with rounded bricks at the base of the wall.

A plaque in the wall in honor of an early parish priest has been moved by Biggin Church to its former subsidiary church , Strawberry Chapel , which is approximately 15 km away. Silver objects used to celebrate communion were hidden during the Civil War. They were found in a stall at Combahee Plantation in 1947 and are located in Strawberry Chapel.

A nearby cemetery is still in use. On top of it is the grave of John Colleton III, the great grandson of the Lord Proprietor .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biggins Church ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  2. ↑ Biggin Church Ruins, Berkeley County (SC Hwy. 402, Moncks Corner vicinity) ( English ) In: National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c d Kappy McNulty: Biggin Church Ruins ( English , PDF; 368 kB) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. March 9, 1977. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  4. ^ A b c d e Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Simons, A., and Lapham, Samuel, Jr .: Plantations of the Carolina Low Country ( English ), 7th edition, Courier Dover Publications, Mineola, New York 1989, ISBN 0486260895 , Pp. 66-67, 180 (accessed December 15, 2010).
  5. ↑ a b c d Biggin Church - 1712 ( English ) In: St. John's Parish Berkeley . ancestry.com. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  6. ^ Henry AM Smith: Inscriptions of the Monuments in the Church-Yard in the Parish Church of St. John's Berkeley . In: The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine . 1909, pp. 171-186. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ Frederick Dalcho: An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina ( English ). E. Thayer (Theological Book Store), Charleston, South Carolina 1820, pp. 271-274, (Retrieved December 15, 2010).
  8. ^ A b Daniel W. Barefoot: Touring South Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites ( English ). John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1999, ISBN 0895871823 , pp. 44-45, (accessed December 15, 2010).
  9. ^ A b c d Albert S. Thomas: A Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina ( English ). RL Bryan Co., Columbia, South Carolina 1957, pp. 186-189, (accessed December 15, 2010).
  10. ^ John F. Clark, Pierce, Patricia A .: Scenic Driving South Carolina ( English ). Globe Pequot, Guilford, Connecticut 2003, ISBN 0762711396 , p. 132 (accessed December 15, 2010).
  11. ↑ Biggin Parish Church Cemetery ( English ) ancestry.com. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
  12. ↑ Federal Writer's Program of the Works Progress Administration : South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State ( English ). Oxford University Press, New York 1941, p. 300 (Accessed December 15, 2010).

Coordinates: 33 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  N , 79 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  W.