St. Helena Island Parish Church Ruins, Junction County Roads 45 & 37, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC

Significance: The St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease is significant as an intact example of mid-18th century tabby construction as for its association with St. Helena Episcopal Parish, both as a primary and secondary place of worship for inhabitants of the parish. It burned in a forest fire in February 1886. The chapel was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places at the South Carolina State Board of Review on February 27, 1988.

Survey number: HABS SC-590

Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88001777

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1933 - 1970

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