Saint Philip's Episcopal Church, Charleston

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Saint Philip's Episcopal Church

146 Church Street
Charleston SC United States
http://www.stphilipschurchsc.org/

Status:	built
Construction Dates
Began	1853
Finished	1858

Building Uses

- religious

Structural Types

- church

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Description
- Architect: Joseph Hyde

- Architect (spire): E.B. White

- The spire of the church was added 10 years after the church building's completion.

- Between 1893 and 1915 the church steeple was equip with a beacon making it a functioning lighthouse.

- The church was damaged by Hurrican Huge in 1989. It costed $4,500,000 to repair the church.

- The church bells were melted down to make Confederate cannons during the American Civil War.

- The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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