Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church
National Register Listing
Street Address:
CR 52, Plantersville, Georgetown, SC City Vicinity (Georgetown County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817722029
Description and Narrative:
This church is significant as a basically intact rural church building of the early nineteenth century, later serving as a summer chapel used by Pee Dee River rice planters in their summer community at Plantersville. It was finished by 1836, and was called Prince Frederick’s Chapel, Pee Dee. As the congregation at Prince Frederick’s grew, construction began on a new sanctuary in 1859. It remained unfinished, however, until after the Civil War, not being occupied until 1877. In 1877 this 1837 chapel was moved to Plantersville, to replace the summer chapel there, which had fallen into disrepair. This one story chapel is of frame construction with clapboard exterior walls. It has a gable roof covered with standing seam metal. The façade features wooden double doors with a low peaked architrave. The entrance is sheltered by a hipped roof porch supported by four chamfered wood posts set on tall iron posts. The apse and transept, along with a belfry (no longer extant) and cross, were added when the building was moved to its present location in 1877. Listed in the National Register October 3, 1988.
Period of Significance:
1877;circa 1850 – 1910
Level of Significance:
National
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Social History
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
October 3 1988
