St. Philips Parish, South Carolina

United States   South Carolina    St. Philip's Parish

History
St. Philip's Parish serves Charleston.

It was the city's first church. Made of wood, it was located at the southeast corner of Broad and Meeting streets. This structure was replaced by a more permanent edifice in 1723 and opened on Easter. St. Philips was the earliest Church of England in the Carolinas and was the first Protestant foundation south of Virginia.

South Carolina's "Anglican parishes were used as election districts and had responsibility for road development, care of the poor, and education."

Founded

 * 1681

Boundary

 * Borders Christ Church, St. Andrew's, St. James Goose Creek, St. Michael's, and St. Thomas and St. Denis parishes. For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina.

Cemetery

 * St. Philip's Church Cemetery, Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina (Est. 1680) (photographs and transcripts of graves)

Parish History
For a history of the parish, see Chapter 2, St. Philip's Church, pages 26-74, and Chapter 3, pages 75-16 in:


 * Dalcho, Frederick. An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina from the First Settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution; with Notices of the Present State of the Church in Each Parish and Some Account of the Early Civil History of Carolina, Never Before Published. Charleston: E. Thayer, 1820. ; digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive.
 * Fraser, Walter J. Charleston! Charleston!. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
 * McGrady, Edward. A Sketch of St. Philip's Church. Reprint, 2000.
 * Pine, W. Morton. Historic St. Philip's Church. 1981.
 * Thomas, Albert S. The Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957. Columbia, S.C.: R.L. Bryan, 1957.

Parish Records
In 1951-1952, the Genealogical Society of Utah microfilmed a typescript of the parish register, which begins in 1713:.

Websites

 * St Philip's Church, Charleston, South Carolina (official site) [Includes a history in the "About Us" section.]