St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Port Royal, SC
**Union Church of Port Royal** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 10000931, date listed 11/17/2010
1004 11th St
Port Royal, SC (Beaufort County)
The Union Church of Port Royal, completed in 1878, is a fine example of rural, vernacular church architecture with occasional Italianate details, consisting of a one-story, wood frame, brick-piered building with a central entry and portico, as well as a cupola containing the church’s belfry with a vented lantern and fluted metal roof.
Erected as a white alternative to the Zion Baptist Church, a local church used by slaves beginning in 1804, and then by black freepersons after the Civil War, the Union Church of Port Royal remained an exclusively white house of worship through the 1950s. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form catalog.archives.gov/id/118997194
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Port Royal, SC
**Union Church of Port Royal** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 10000931, date listed 11/17/2010
1004 11th St
Port Royal, SC (Beaufort County)
The Union Church of Port Royal, completed in 1878, is a fine example of rural, vernacular church architecture with occasional Italianate details, consisting of a one-story, wood frame, brick-piered building with a central entry and portico, as well as a cupola containing the church’s belfry with a vented lantern and fluted metal roof.
Erected as a white alternative to the Zion Baptist Church, a local church used by slaves beginning in 1804, and then by black freepersons after the Civil War, the Union Church of Port Royal remained an exclusively white house of worship through the 1950s. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form catalog.archives.gov/id/118997194