St. Michael's Church
by Lorraine Baum
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St. Michael's Church
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Lorraine Baum
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We stopped in Charleston, South Carolina to pick up a friend at the airport on our way to a week stay in Myrtle Beach, S.C. We had just enough time to explore downtown Charleston for 2 or 3 hours, and I would have given anything to have had much more time there. So much to see! Fascinating! The architecture is quite unlike anything we see in Colorado. I must revisit!
Saint Michael's Church sits on the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets. It's lofty steeple reaches 186 feet in height, with a weather vane that is 7 ½ feet long. It is is the oldest church edifice in the City of Charleston, standing on the site of the first Anglican Church built south of Virginia.
A small wooden church named St. Philip’s, built in the 1680s was the first inhabitant of the site. It was rebuilt in 1727 to accommodate larger groups of followers, and in 1835 burned down. Its current church was completed in 1861.
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April 26th, 2018
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