First Baptist Church

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

First Baptist Church

Street Address:

N. Main Street, Abbeville, South Carolina (Abbeville County)

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Date Surveyed:

circa 1981

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1911

Historic Use:

Religion

Current Use:

Religion

Architect or Builder:

Sayre and Baldwin

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick

Foundation Materials:

Stone

Roof Materials:

Slate w/ metal hips

Signficant Architectural Features:

Monumental yellow brick church; central tetra style Ionic portico, w/ full entablature carried around flanking pavilions; Unfluted columns w/ scamozzi capitals are of stone; stone architrave; brick frieze w/ diamond-shaped stone inserts above columns; wooden cornice w/ dentil course and modillion blocks; raking cornice in pediment, which has brick tympanum; facade behind portico has three tall rectangular stained glass windows, with twin entrances at sides; the flanking pavilions are 2-story w/ stained glass windows; the corner pavilions have corner pilasters of brick; these pilasters have stone doric capitals w/ fleurs-de-lis in their necking; On Ellis Street elevation; corner pavilion; 3 bays w/ stained glass windows then 2-story educational block (attached); 3-story yellow brick annex at rear; yellow brick is stretcher bond; interior inaccessible; church apparently replaced an 1873 building.

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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