Little River Baptist Church
Appearance
Little River Baptist Church | |
Location | 3.8 miles north of Jenkinsville on South Carolina Highway 213, near Jenkinsville, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°18′38″N 81°16′31″W / 34.31056°N 81.27528°W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
Built | 1845 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 72001208[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 13, 1972 |
Little River Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina. USA. It was built about 1845, and is a one-story, frame meeting house plan church. The church is a rectangular clapboard structure of Greek Revival design with Gothic Revival details in the front facade. The front gabled roof is supported by four octagonal columns on a raised platform. In the early 1950s, a wing was added to provide Sunday School rooms and kitchen facilities.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Hornsby, Ben F. (July 1, 1971). "Little River Baptist Church" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- "Little River Baptist Church, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 213, Jenkinsville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
Categories:
- Baptist churches in South Carolina
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
- Greek Revival church buildings in South Carolina
- Churches completed in 1845
- 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States
- Churches in Fairfield County, South Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, South Carolina
- Southern Baptist Convention churches
- Wooden churches in South Carolina
- Midlands South Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
- South Carolina church stubs