The Ornament Page of the Berkeley Citizens, Inc. Site
Each 24 KT gold-finished ornament celebrates Berkeley County history.
The series includes:
1996 Mulberry Castle
1997 Old Santee Canal
1998 Strawberry Chapel
1999 St. James Church
2000 Medway Plantation
2001 St. Stephen Parish Church
2002 Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox
2003 Mepkin Abbey
2004 The "Little David"
2005 Pompion Hill Chapel
2006 Middleburg Plantation
2007 Moncks Corner Train Depot
2008 The Oaks at Goose Creek
2009 Pineville Chapel
PINEVILLE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Berkeley County’s planters, wishing to avoid the summer months’ fevers associated with their low-lying plantation lands, established highland settlements, particularly in pineland woods. In 1810, a neat rectangular one-story wooden church was erected in the northern Berkeley County Village of Pineville. St. Stephen Parish was later to become northern Berkeley County, and the church officially became the Chapel of Ease for St. Stephen in 1845.
A beautifully simple building, the interior retains its historic altar, pews, pulpit and nine over nine light windows, including those located at the second and third levels of the bell tower’s west elevation. The ceiling is coved with a small balcony at the rear of the sanctuary that is supported by four paneled posts with sunbursts carved in the Federal style. Located behind the altar, a Federal style carved Palladian window is backlit by windows in the apse. The pulpit itself is delicately carved with round arched panels and a corbelled, oriel-type front. A unique decorative feature opposite the bell tower of Pineville Chapel is a carving of a fish, one of the first symbols of the Christian church. The Chapel exhibits simple, yet refined, architectural details, and has seen very little alteration since its construction.
The Pineville Chapel is one of only two early nineteenth century frame country churches surviving in Berkeley County. Most of Pineville was destroyed by Union troops in April 1865.
In the spring of 1976, the late Mrs. Mattie Gourdin Marion of Pineville, widow of the late Edward Bailey Marion, willed the income from a piece of property for the upkeep and maintenance of the Pineville Chapel.
The Chapel is on the National Register of Historic Places, located in the Pineville Historic District of northern Berkeley County near the intersection of State Road 204 and Highway 45.
Church services are held twice annually, Spring and Fall, normally the Sunday the time changes. Special services, weddings, and choral concerts are held periodically, and may be scheduled with St. Stephen Episcopal Church.
Each ornament is $18.00. All profits from the annual ornament sale benefit programs and services for persons with developmental disabilities living in Berkeley County. Previous year issues are available at our main office, 1301 Old Hwy 52 South, Moncks Corner, SC.
If you would like to receive advance notice of new ornament issues, please send
your name and mailing address in an
e-mail
addressed to contact@berkeleycitizens.org
To order a 2009 Pineville Chapel ornament by mail, please send a check
payable to Berkeley Citizens, Inc. for $19.50 ($18.00 + $1.50 shipping and
handling per ornament) to:
BCI 2009 Ornament
PO Drawer 429
Moncks Corner SC 29461
The 2009 ornament is also available at the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, the Berkeley County Office Building, Delta Pharmacy, D’s Jewelers, Hometown Body & Bath, and in Goose Creek at City Hall.
Berkeley Citizens, Inc.
PO Drawer 429
Moncks Corner SC 29461
Phone: (843) 761-0300
Fax: (843) 761-0303
E-mail: contact@berkeleycitizens.org
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