St. James AME Church

Historic Property

Street Address:

305 Cherry Street, Abbeville, South Carolina (Abbeville County)

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Date Surveyed:

circa 1981

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1899

Historic Use:

Religion

Current Use:

Religion

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick

Foundation Materials:

Brick

Roof Materials:

Composition shingle

Signficant Architectural Features:

large brick rectangular church; tower on left side of facade; gabled facade with central entry; low peaked hood-mold; single lancet windows with hood-molds flanking entry; central double lancet above entrance; corbeled rat-tooth brickwork at eaves, and at stages of tower; octagonal spire sheathed in patterned metal on tower; side elevations have single lancets with hood molding; brick buttresses defining bays; slightly projecting cross gabled transepts; full basement; polygonal apse at rear of church.

Survey:

Abbeville - City 1981

Archives Location:

Box 9, Series 108042, Survey of historic resources (county by county data on surface properties), circa 1971-2014

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