Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church (Bishopville, South Carolina)

Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Bishopville Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1911, and is a linear gable-front, temple-form, two-story brick building in the Neoclassical style. Set upon a raised brick foundation, the building's most imposing feature is its tetrastyle portico featuring a full-width masonry stair with cheek walls and monumental limestone columns and pilasters of the Ionic order. Directly to the rear of the church building is a small, one-story lateral-gabled frame building, constructed in 1851 as Mt. Zion's Session House.[2][3]

Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church
LocationSouth Carolina Highway 154, St. Charles Rd., near Bishopville, South Carolina
Coordinates34.10056°N 80.22846°W / 34.10056; -80.22846
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1851, 1911
ArchitectWilson & Sompayrac; Padgett, William
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.03000661[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 17, 2003

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Power, J. Tracy; Andrew W. Chandler (February 11, 2003). "Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. "Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Lee County (S.C. Hwy. 154 (St. Charles Rd.), Bishopville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 23 July 2012.


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