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Pompion Hill Chapel, Pompion Hill Lane, Huger, Berkeley County, SC
- Title: Pompion Hill Chapel, Pompion Hill Lane, Huger, Berkeley County, SC
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Villepontoux, Zachariah
Axon, William
Leifeste, Amalia , faculty sponsor
Ashburn, Jane , field team
Brown, Amanda , field team
Doddington, L Naomi , field team
Evangelist, John , field team
Fortenberry, Brent , field team
Fortney, Jessica , field team
Schriber, Haley , field team
Simkins, Anna , field team
Stoll, Jean , field team
Thompson, Michelle , field team
Walling, Rachel , field team
White, Meghan , field team
Wilson, Meredith , field team
Waterman, Thomas T , photographer
Nichols, Frederick D , photographer
Waterman, Thomas T , historian
Bayless, Charles N , photographer
National Endowment for the Arts , sponsor - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 30
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 13
Photo Caption Page(s): 2 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS SC,8-HUG.V,2-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- 2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place
- Significance: Pompion Hill is one of South Carolina's best-preserved chapels of ease and is known for its unaltered Georgian interior and exterior. It is significant in regards to its architecture, association with historic figures, and role within the religious community and social structure of early south Carolinians. Pompion Hill Chapel was listed on the National Register in 1970. The Chapel at Pompion Hill is the best surviving example of Anglican rural parish church architecture in the Lowcountry, if not the Western Hemisphere. While its holistic design is indicative of common English church-building practices of the early modern colonial period, the Flemish bond, mortar details, and transomed shutters distinguish it as a product of Lowcountry vernacular traditions. The interior fittings remain largely intact, save the nineteenth century pew bench replacements. Nonetheless, Pompion's design reveals the 18th-century Anglican liturgical focus on a balance of scripture and sacraments; the juxtaposition of the altar and the pulpit are positioned facing one another. The remoteness of the site and infrequent use since the twentieth century contributes to the chapel’s retention of original fabric and the fortunate maintenance of an authentic setting. Pompion Hill Chapel is located on a remote stretch of the Cooper River, isolated from major population centers. The seclusion and distance from Cainhoy Road have contributed to keeping the building, landscape, and churchyard unaltered over the last 250 years. The site is experienced today, much as it has been for all of its history, with uninterrupted views of the natural landscape and no modern conveniences with the exception of watercraft that pass. The land across the Cooper River is a wildlife preserve and a National Forest surrounds the general area. The detail of the pulpit has great commonality with the pulpit at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston. The entire pulpit was replicated from the Batty Langley pattern book, plate 114; this illustrates the connection of the Anglican Church in Colonial American to England. The intricate pulpit built in the fashion exported from England, it demonstrates the pride and material wealth that the plantation owners and parishioners invested in this structure.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2176
- Survey number: HABS SC-34
- Building/structure dates: 1763 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 2007 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000567
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 33.086295, -79.840362
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/sc0340/
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS SC,8-HUG.V,2-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 30
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 13
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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- Call Number: HABS SC,8-HUG.V,2-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 30
Measured Drawing(s): 13
Data Page(s): 13
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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