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This Episcopal church, like so much of lowcountry
South Carolina, where I vacationed two weeks ago, is filled with beauty and history. Though the community itself
dates back to 1767, when a church was built nearby, this particular cruciform
Gothic structure was constructed in 1854. Its rose-colored glass windows came
from England.
The church survived two disasters: one in 1863, when
Union troops spared it from the torch to which they put most of the rest of the
town, and the other in 1898, when a hurricane damaged the building. (Repairs
were made within two years.) The Church of the Cross has been listed on the National
Register of Historic Places since 1975.
