Little River Baptist Church
National Register Listing
Street Address:
3.8 mi. N of Jenkinsville on SC 213, Jenkinsville, SC (Fairfield County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817720022
Description and Narrative:
The Little River Baptist Church is significant for its architecture and as one of the older Baptist churches in the South Carolina upcountry. Built ca. 1845, the church is an excellent adaptation of the meeting house plan church mixed with popular styles of the period. The church is a rectangular clapboard structure of Greek Revival design with Gothic Revival details in the front facade. The front gabled roof is supported by four octagonal columns on a raised platform. Two front doors open off of the wide portico. A lancet arch with tracery of wood and glass tops each door with a central keystone. In the center of the pediment is a semi-elliptical louvered vent. The church was apparently constructed by a local craftsman and has many original interior features such as straight-back wooden pews, flooring, and a balcony around three sides resting on columns. There is also hand-carved woodwork including a ceiling rosette from which hangs the original brass chandelier with glass hurricane shades and prisms. In the early 1950s a wing was added to provide Sunday School rooms and kitchen facilities. Listed in the National Register April 13, 1972.
Period of Significance:
circa 1845
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Religion;Philosophy
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
April 13 1972
