Rembert Church
National Register Listing
Street Address:
1 mi. E of Woodrow on SC 37, Woodrow, SC (Lee County)
Alternate Name:
Rembert Methodist Church
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817731001
Description and Narrative:
(Rembert Methodist Church) One of the earliest Methodist congregations in South Carolina was located in the community around Rembert Church, with a Methodist Society meeting as early as 1785. In its early days it was frequently visited by Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church of the United States. It was also important for the campmeetings that were held nearby, starting in 1802 and 1803. The cemetery here was established in 1800 and the present meeting house style church was erected ca. 1835. Structurally a plain rectangular building with clapboard siding, such design affords only the essentials needed for worship. It sits on brick piers and has a gabled, metal roof. The windows are 20/20 with two smaller windows above the main ones on the front façade. The Rembert Church building served the rural Methodist congregation (with an 1850s enrollment of some 80 whites and 500 slaves) for over a century. This structure remains as an example of the small church so important to nearly every aspect of life in the rural south during the growth and development of South Carolina. Listed in the National Register February 25, 1975.
Period of Significance:
circa 1835
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Religion
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
February 25 1975
