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Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, Parker's Ferry Road, 1 mile from South Carolina Highway 64, Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC
- Title: Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, Parker's Ferry Road, 1 mile from South Carolina Highway 64, Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC
- Other Title: Pon Pon Chapel
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Wesley, John
Colleton County Historical Preservation Society
Arzola, Robert R , program coordinator
Leifeste, Amalia , faculty sponsor
Clemson University/College of Charleston, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation , sponsor
Anderson, Amber , delineator
Sanders, Sarah , field team
Achtyl, Claire , field team
Devlin, Shannon , field team
Don, Jackie , field team
Dunleavy, Alison , field team
Dykens, Katie , field team
Hoopes, Lauren , field team
Johnston, Taylor , field team
Pinto, Frances , field team
Schwebler, Justin , field team
Weston, Melanie , field team
Worrell, Laura Lee , field team
Zhou, Quan , field team
McPartland, Mary , transmitter - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 1
- 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-883
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- 2015 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Honorable Mention
- Significance: In 1706 the Anglican Church was established in the state of South Carolina through the passing of the Church Act. This act effectively created and funded ten parishes throughout the state, including the Parish of St. Bartholomew's in which Pon Pon Chapel of Ease is located. Situated along the Edisto River in southeastern Colleton County, near the present day area of Jacksonboro, South Carolina, St. Bartholomew's Parish was originally a Native American settlement referred to as “Pon Pon”. While religious services were held regularly throughout the parish following the Yemassee War, the first chapel of ease on this site was constructed in 1725. A Chapel of Ease is a place of worship built to accommodate parishioners who lived too far from the parish's main church. These chapels were traditionally built on tracts of land donated for community use by local plantation owners, who in turn comprised the chapel's congregation. The original 1725 wooden chapel on the Pon Pon site served a large body of people and attracted visitors such as the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, who preached at the Pon Pon Chapel of Ease in 1737. After a hurricane badly damaged the chapel, it was rebuilt in brick in 1754. The chapel is believed to have been partially rebuilt or fully reconstructed in 1822 as result of an 1801 fire which dubbed the chapel the “Burnt Church”. The ruins present at the site today match the footprint of the earlier 1754 church. The original building stood one story high, three bays wide and likely five bays long. It featured rounded arch window and door openings, as well as two oculus windows on the primary façade. The remaining brickwork present at the site’s ruins alludes to two brick bond patterns, an English bond below the water table and a Flemish bond above. The top of the front façade is additionally lines with rowlock headers. Despite the 1754 and 1822 reconstructions, the chapel began to fall into disrepair as parishioners moved away from the area during nineteenth century. In 1959, Hurricane Gracie damaged what remained of the chapel, demolishing the building's front curvilinear gable. Following the chapel's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, efforts were taken to partially reconstruct and stabilize the front façade in 1975. Today, plans for further stabilization and conservation of the existing fabric are under consideration. The Colleton County Historical and Preservation Society currently cares for the Pon Pon Chapel of Ease. Though in partial ruins, this chapel and graveyard serve as a reminder of early eighteenth-century Anglican beginnings and particularly of the proliferation of chapels of ease throughout the Lowcountry to address the religious needs of remote plantation inhabitants.
- Survey number: HABS SC-883
- Building/structure dates: 1725 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1754 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1822 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001205
- Subjects:
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- Latitude/Longitude: 32.808693, -80.489359
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Call Number: HABS SC-883
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