Unknown

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Street Address:

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

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Date Surveyed:

circa 1981

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

1885

Historic Use:

Religion

Current Use:

Religion

Architect or Builder:

J.W. Nichols

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick;Stucco

Foundation Materials:

Brick

Roof Materials:

Composition shingle

Signficant Architectural Features:

Cruciform Gothic Revival Church of stuccoed brick; square buttressed tower at left (north) of nave, w/ octagonal borached spire and cross; facade has small porch w/ flanking lancets; rose window above porch w/ central hex-foil surrounded by 18 roundels; stepped corbeling in gable end; corner buttresses; sides of nave have single lancets w/ alternating buttresses; transepts have corner buttresses; 2 bays on end w/ lancet windows; small sacristy on southeast corner, w/ entrance; 5-sided apse w/ buttresses and stained glass lancet windows; roof of apse is lower than nave roof; basement entrance beneath north transept; exposed hammer-beam roof; interior has gallery at rear of nave.

Alterations:

Air conditioning

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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