275 Meeting Street (Trinity Methodist Church)

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

275 Meeting Street, ca. 1970s.

275 Meeting Street, ca. 1970s.

Name/Title

275 Meeting Street (Trinity Methodist Church)

Entry/Object ID

MEETING.275.1

Scope and 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).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

MEETING.275.

Source or Donor

275 Meeting Street (Trinity Methodist Church)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Meeting Street, Ansonborough, Churches/Synagogues/Houses of Worship, Trinity United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.), Church buildings--South Carolina--Charleston

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Property File

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 File Folder

Archive Notes

Finding Aids: Index to Property Files Level of Description: Folder

Location

Location

Shelf

Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PF Box 74

Shelf

Prop File Shelves, Property File Shelves

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Jones, Edward C.

Related Entries

Notes

2006.002.0081, 2006.010.348-365, MEETING.275.2

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 458

General Notes

Note

Notes: Photo in this record from Bayless collection., 2006.010.348-365.

Created By

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Create Date

August 19, 2010

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023