Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site

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Strawberry Chapel at Moncks Corner, South Carolina

Strawberry Chapel is a parochial branch church in the lower part of St. John's in Berkeley County , South Carolina that was built in 1725. It is located on Strawberry Chapel Road between South Carolina State Highway 8-44 and the western arm of the Cooper River . The Town of Childsbury was a New Town at this point, which was settled in 1707, but no longer exists. The church and site of the former town was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972 . The town's site is a South Carolina Heritage Preserve.

history

James Child, an English settler, was given 480  hectares of land on Strawberry Bluff that overlooked the Cooper River. This land was on the Fall Line at the point where ships sailing upriver could go. He set up a ferry on the spot and planned the construction of the town of Childsbury on the cliffs above the river. At some point in town there was an inn, a school, a chapel, a shop, and the ferry. A tanner, a butcher, a shoemaker and carpenters ran their businesses. However, due to the growth of nearby plantations, the city lost its importance. The chapel and the inn were still used in 1750, and markets were also held until the middle of 1750.

The chapel belonged to the parish of St. John's in Berkeley. The parish church at the time was Biggin Church , about 15 km away. The Church had authority to baptize newborn babies and bury the dead.

In 1825, Biggin Church was replaced by the Strawberry Chapel.

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The city should be twenty-four blocks on Strawberry Bluff. There was a market square in the center, but there would be two other squares, Child's Square and Dixe's Square. The streets were intended to be 66  feet (around 20) wide.

Land for a college, public school, church and priest was planned. In addition, Child had designated in his plan 600  acres (around 240 hectares) of land for farms and livestock, and 100 acres (around 40 hectares) for a citadel . A drawing of his plan was published.

Architecture of the chapel

The chapel is a simple, rectangular structure made of plastered bricks . It has a crooked roof . The south-facing facade has a double entrance door with a combat window above. Windows that can be closed with shutters are located on both sides of this door. At the west end of the church there is a single door that is flanked by a pair of windows. A decorative rose window is installed above this . On the north side, behind the altar, protrudes a small vestibule that serves as a sacristy .

A plaque to one of the past parish priests has been moved from Biggin Church to Strawberry Chapel. Biggin Church's silver communion utensils, which were hidden at the end of the Civil War , were found buried in a shed at Combahee Plantation in 1947. It is now in the Strawberry Chapel.

In 1882 a new chapel was built in Cordesville, not far away. Strawberry Chapel itself was repaired in 1913.

The church is surrounded by a cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Register Information System Query - County and State: Berkeley County, SC.Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town, Berkeley County (SC Sec. Rd. 44, Mount Holly vicinity) ( English ) In: National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Elias B. Bull: Strawberry Chapel and Site of Town of Childsbury ( English , PDF; 510 kB) In: National Register of History Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. December 28, 1970. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c Childsbury Town Heritage Preserve ( English ) In: DNR Heritage Preserves . South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on April 26, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  5. ^ John F. Clark, Pierce, Patricia A .: Scenic Driving South Carolina ( English ). Globe Pequot, Guilford, Connecticut 2003, ISBN 0762711396 , p. 131.
  6. ↑ Frederick Dalcho: An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina ( English ). E. Thayer (Theological Book Store), Charleston, South Carolina 1820, pp. 266-269.
  7. ^ Walter Edgar, The Humanities Council SC : South Carolina Encyclopedia ( English ). University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina 2006, ISBN 1-57003-598-9 , p. 934.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ^ A b c 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 , p 66-67, 180.
  11. ↑ Thomas T. Waterman, Nichols, Frederick D .: Strawberry Chapel, Cooper River, West Branch, Cordesville vicinity, Berkeley County, SC (Photographs) ( English ) In: Historic American Building Survey . National Park Service. Retrieved on June 27, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: dead link / memory.loc.gov  

Coordinates: 33 ° 5 ′ 36 ″  N , 79 ° 56 ′ 7 ″  W.