Saint Michael's Church
unknown (British); Gibbs, James
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Alternative Title
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Date
1752-1761Description
Overall view; Charles Town was slow to build churches; the first was the original St Philip’s (1682); on that site now is Charleston’s most revered and oldest intact church, St. Michael’s (anonymous; 1752-1761), a weighty Doric-porticoed and demonstratively sited version of James Gibbs’ St Martin-in-the-Fields (1720-1726), London. [The clock and ring of eight bells were imported from England in 1764. The Ainsworth-Thwaites clock is thought to be the oldest functioning colonial tower clock in the country.] Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/1/2011)
Type of Work
churchSubject
architecture, timekeeping, Great Britain--Colonies, Eighteenth century, Neoclassical, American Colonial
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