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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1706/04/00 A wooden Huguenot church (lost) is built on a brick foundation at James Town, probably between April 1706 and December 1706, where it will serve as the parish church until 11 May 1754. The site is on the south bank of the Santee river, east of US 17A.
1706/11/30 The Church Act establishes the Church of England as the official, tax-supported church of Carolina. The status will remain for seven decades. Dividing the province into 10 parishes, it sets aside land for churches, cemeteries, messuages and glebes.
1707/00/00 Rev Pierre Robert serves as the first minister of the Hugunot church in James Town (lost). The first Calvinistic minister in South Carolina, he immigrated to Santee in 1686 from Bale, Switzlerland, and died in Santee in 1715.
1711/12/21 Daniel Huger, The Immigrant Died Daniel Huger dies at age 60 at his Wambaw Plantation (lost), Santee, Province of South Carolina. Mr Huger is buried at Saint James Santee Parish Cemetery in McClellanville, South Carolina.
1714/06/12 A Chapel of Ease (lost, site at Honey Hill) to the parish church at James Town is erected at Echaw by an act of the General Assembly. Pastor Robert officiates on alternate Sundays at each church.
1715/00/00 Claude Phillippee de Richbourg succeeds Pierre Robert serves as pastor at the church in James Town (lost). A Huguenot, he came to Virginia in 1699 as minister of the French Colony at Manakin Town on the James River and died at Santee in 1719.
1731/00/00 The General Assembly quits the chapel at Echaw and orders a chapel of ease to be built near the coast and one in the upper the parish. The minister leads services one Sunday in the parish church, the next in the lower chapel and the 3rd week in the upper.
1768/00/00 The new St James Episcopal Church in Santee is built of brick. The Georgian style building features a palladian window and pedimented classical porticos on both the north and south sides.
1840/00/00 Rev Charles C Pinckney Vocation Rev Charles C Pinckney serves as rector of St James Church, Santee and Christ Church, Greenville, 1835-1845.
1890/00/00 A chapel-of-ease is built in lower St James-Santee Parish. Known as the St James-Santee Episcopal Church, it is located at 205 Oak Street in McClellanville.

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Particulars for St James Episcopal Church, Santee:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Exploration-settlement
Architectural Style Georgian Architecture
Criteria Historic Event
Level of Significance National
Owner Private
Historic Use Religious Property



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 15th April 1970

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: St. James Episcopal Church, Santee
Registry Address: 17 mi. S of Georgetown on the Santee River
Registry Number: 70000581
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: Georgian
Contributing Buildings: 1
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, National Landmark boundary approved
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Exploration-settlement, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Religious property
Period of Significance: 1750-1799
Significant Year: 1768
Historic Function: Religion
Historic Sub-Function: Religious structure
Current Function: Religion
Current Sub-Function: Religious structure

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