Huguenot Church
— — the last French Protestant church in America.
Not only on a wall.
“A small Gothic Revival church in Charleston, South Carolina, with stuccoed walls washed pale pink and a stepped façade pointing up toward the steeple. Built in the 1840s on the site of two earlier sanctuaries, it is the only remaining independent Huguenot congregation in the country, and the liturgy is still read in French at the spring service. — from the studio
Huguenot Church, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The French Huguenot Church stands at 136 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, at the corner of Queen Street. The congregation was founded in 1681 by French Protestants fleeing persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The present building, the third on the site, was completed in 1845 to a design by Edward Brickell White. It is the only independent Huguenot congregation in the United States. The church is a National Historic Landmark and remains an active worship community.
White's design is an early Gothic Revival in stuccoed brick, washed pale pink. The façade rises in three bays under a pointed central gable, flanked by buttressed corner pinnacles. Inside, a slender tracery window holds the eastern end, and the gallery runs along three sides on slim cast-iron columns. The Erben pipe organ, installed in 1845 by the New York builder Henry Erben, is one of the oldest tracker organs of its kind still in regular use in the country.
The church is open to visitors on weekdays through much of the year, with a modest suggested donation. Sunday services follow the Reformed Huguenot liturgy in English; the annual French Service, traditionally held in spring, uses a translated version of the 16th-century Neuchâtel liturgy and remains a draw for visitors with Huguenot ancestry. The building sits in the heart of Charleston's historic district, a short walk from St. Philip's, the Dock Street Theatre, and the Battery.