Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church (Bishopville, South Carolina) Explained

Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church
Location:	South Carolina Highway 154, St. Charles Rd., near Bishopville, South Carolina
Coordinates:	34.1006°N -80.2285°W
Built:	1851, 1911
Architect:	Wilson & Sompayrac Padgett, William
Architecture:	Classical Revival
Added:	July 17, 2003
Refnum:	03000661

Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Bishopville Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1911, and is a linear gable-front, temple-form, two-story brick building in the Neoclassical style. Set upon a raised brick foundation, the building's most imposing feature is its tetrastyle portico featuring a full-width masonry stair with cheek walls and monumental limestone columns and pilasters of the Ionic order. Directly to the rear of the church building is a small, one-story lateral-gabled frame building, constructed in 1851 as Mt. Zion's Session House.^{[1] [2]}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Power . J. Tracy . Andrew W. Chandler . Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . February 11, 2003 . pdf . 23 July 2012.
2. Web site: Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Lee County (S.C. Hwy. 154 (St. Charles Rd.), Bishopville vicinity) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 23 July 2012.