328 Meeting Street (Citadel Square Baptist Church)

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Citadel Square Baptist Church (1970s): Origformat: Print-Photographic
Citadel Square Baptist Church (1970s)

Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

328 Meeting Street (Citadel Square Baptist Church)

Entry/Object ID

MEETING.328.1

Scope and Content

Constructed 1855-56; steeple restored 1990-91. Formed in 1854 by twelve members from First Baptist Church who were eventually joined by members of the Wentworth Street Baptist Church in Ansonborough and the Morris Street Baptist Church in Radcliffeborough, this amalgamated congregation began construction within a few months on a new church building. Edward C. Jones and Francis D. Lee apparently designed the new Baptist church with a style referred to in the Charleston Courier as "pure Norman," following the Romanesque structures found particularly in France. Jones and Lee's design predates the more famous work in this style by Henry Hobson Richardson. On the exterior a massive gable roof fronts Meeting Street with arched entries surmounted by elaborate Romanesque windows, the central one supporting a rose window. The 224-foot spire was toppled by the hurricane of 1885. Its replacement, a shorter, late Victorian version of the earlier steeple, was in turn replaced following damage in Hurricane Hugo. In 1990 the congregation raised funds to restore the steeple to its original height, with some concessions on the design to incorporate the post-1885 work. In the interior, ribbed vaulting and plaster bosses decorate the ceilings and the pulpit area where an alcove was originally wainscoted in oak. The interior was formerly painted in an imitation of stone. File contains building history from Architectural Guide to Charleston (by Simons & Thomas); newspaper articles about new spire (1990), termite damage (2012), renovation (2015); captioned newspaper photograph showing view looking across Marion square towards Citadel Square Baptist Church (1984).

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Property Records

Acquisition

Accession

MEETING.328.

Source or Donor

328 Meeting Street (Citadel Square Baptist Church)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Search Terms

Meeting Street, Mazyckborough and Wraggborough, Churches/Synagogues/Houses of Worship, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Church buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Citadel Square Church (Charleston, S.C.)

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.

Person or Organization

Lee, Francis D.

Related Entries

Notes

2006.010.370-374, 2007.005.1h, HUGO.002.031a-b, MEETING.328.2

Related Publications

Notes

Buildings of Charleston (see Abstract), pg. 610

General Notes

Note

Notes: Photo attached to this record is from Bayless collection, 2006.010.370-374.

Created By

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Create Date

August 24, 2010

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023