All Saints Church Pawleys Island is a historic

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complex and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located on Pawleys Island,

Georgetown County, South Carolina Georgetown County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,404. Its county seat is Georgetown. The county was founded in 1769. It is named for George III of the United Kingdom. Geor ...

. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site—the sanctuary, cemetery, rectory, and chapel. In 2004, it left the Episcopal Church to join the

Diocese of the Carolinas The Diocese of the Carolinas is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, comprising 34 parishes in the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Its first bishop is Steve Wood. He is also the re ...

, now part of the

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, a denomination within the

Anglican realignment The Anglican realignment is a movement among some Anglicans to align themselves under new or alternative oversight within or outside the Anglican Communion. This movement is primarily active in parts of the Episcopal Church in the United States ...

movement. The sanctuary, built 1916–1917, the fourth to serve this congregation, is significant as an excellent example of the

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

style, adapting the design of the church's 19th century sanctuary which burned in 1915. It is a one-story rectangular brick building sheathed in scored stucco. It has an engaged pedimented

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

supported by four fluted Greek

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...

columns. A Doric frieze, composed of triglyphs, metopes, and guttae, runs under the cornice around the building on three sides. The church has a large center aisle sanctuary with a coved tray ceiling. The church

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

, established in the 1820s, is significant for the persons buried there, many of whom were the leading public figures of antebellum Georgetown County. It is also significant a collection of outstanding gravestone art from about 1820 to 1900. The church rectory, built in 1822, is an intact example of a Carolina

I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...

. Its first congregation was formed in 1739, and the church has been located at this site since then. Associated with the church is the separately listed

Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel, also known as Summer Chapel, All Saints' Episcopal Church, and Waccamaw, is a historic plantation chapel located near Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a small, fram ...

. It was added to the

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in 1991.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Anglican Church in North America church buildings in the United States Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina Churches completed in 1916 20th-century Episcopal church buildings National Register of Historic Places in Georgetown County, South Carolina Churches in Georgetown County, South Carolina Neoclassical church buildings in the United States Former Episcopal church buildings in South Carolina Anglican realignment congregations 20th-century Anglican church buildings in the United States {{SouthCarolina-church-stub