Rembert Church
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Rembert Church | |
Location | 1 mile east of Woodrow on South Carolina Highway 37, near Woodrow, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°5′51″N 80°21′11″W / 34.09750°N 80.35306°W |
Area | 11 acres (4.5 ha) |
Built | 1835 |
Architectural style | Meeting House Style |
NRHP reference No. | 75001702[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 25, 1975 |
Rembert Church, also known as Rembert Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located near Woodrow, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a plain meeting house style rectangular building with clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1800. It is one of the earliest Methodist congregations in South Carolina, with a Methodist Society meeting as early as 1785. In its early days it was frequently visited by Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church of the United States.[2][3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Brabham, William H. (January 14, 1974). "Rembert Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ^ "Rembert Church, Lee County (S.C. Hwy. 37, Woodrow vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
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- Methodist churches in South Carolina
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
- Churches completed in 1835
- 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Churches in Lee County, South Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, South Carolina
- Pee Dee South Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
- South Carolina church stubs