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in contact, he was told by one of them, in reply to his 

 questions, that she was there constantly, and that her 

 old mistress had many times instructed her in the 

 Christian religion. 



St. Philip's Church was one of the most ancient 

 and imposing public buildings in Charleston. It 

 was founded in 1711, and divine service performed in 

 it in 1723. The main body of the church was founded 

 in 1728, and the steeple in 1733. It was built of brick 

 and stuccoed to resemble stone, exhibiting more of de- 

 sign in its arrangement than any other ancient build- 

 ing erected here. The site was a little above Queen 

 street, and looking directly down Church street. The 

 general outline of the plan presented the form of a 

 cross, the foot of which constituting the nave, was 

 seventy-four feet long and sixty-two feet wide. The 

 arms formed the vestibule, tower, and porticoes, at 

 each end, projecting twelve feet beyond the sides, and 

 surmounted by a pediment. The head of the cross 

 was a portico of four massy square pillars, interco- 

 lumniated with arches, surmounted with their regular 

 entablature, and crowned with a pediment. Over this 

 portico, and behind it, rose two sections of an octagon 

 tower — the lower containing the bell, the upper the 

 clock — crowned with a dome, and quadrangular lan- 

 tern, and vane. The height of the tower, entire, with 

 its basement, was one hundred and thirteen feet. The 

 sides of the edifice were ornamented with a series of 

 pilasters of the same Tuscan order with the portico 

 columns, each of the spaces being pierced with a sin- 

 gle lofty aperture as a window. The roof was par- 

 tially hid by a balustrade which ran round it. The 

 interior of this church, in its whole length, presented 

 an elevation of a lofty double arcade supporting upon 



