Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic
African Methodist Episcopal
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The African Methodist Episcopal ...
church located at 369 Drayton Street in
McClellanville, South Carolina. It was built around 1872, and is a one-story, rectangular frame vernacular
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
church. It has a pedimented gable-front roof that supports a square-based steeple. A
cemetery is on the property.
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
References
African Methodist Episcopal churches in South Carolina
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Carpenter Gothic church buildings in South Carolina
Churches completed in 1872
19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
Churches in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
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