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Providence Methodist Church, Orangeburg County (4833 Old State Rd., Holly Hill )
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Facade Main Entrance Right Oblique Left Oblique Left Elevation
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Left Elevation
Palladian Window
Detail
Left Rear Oblique Rear Elevation Right Elevation
Front
Right Elevation
Rear
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Interior
Narthex
Interior
Chancel
Interior
Sanctuary
Interior
Palladian Window
Interior
Southeast
Stairwell
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Interior
Northwest
Stairwell
Interior
First Floor
Hallway
Interior
Second Floor
Hallway
Cemetery

Providence Methodist Church, constructed in 1919-20, is significant architecturally as an outstanding and remarkable example of an early twentieth-century Neo-Classical sanctuary in rural lower South Carolina. The church was designed by the renowned Columbia, South Carolina architect Charles Coker Wilson, one of the most successful and influential South Carolina architects of the early twentieth century. The church building, inclusive of the sanctuary and rear educational/administrative wings, is laid out in a slightly modified cruciform plan and features a gable-front, temple-form, edifice with a central tetrastyle portico, simplified Roman Doric order limestone columns, pilasters and entablature, a boxed cornice with pedimented gables, numerous bull’s eye windows, and remarkable large stained glass Palladian windows. In particular, its outstanding sanctuary windows, which church members insist were purchased from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio at the time of construction, make the church a noteworthy property combining Wilson’s fine church architecture with outstanding examples of early twentieth-century art glass. To the rear of the church is a large cemetery that contributes to the significance of the property. It contains the burial plots of more than 400 parishioners and community members dating to 1856, though fewer than fifteen individuals were buried there prior to 1880. Listed in the National Register September 25, 2009.

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