Facade	Main Entrance	Right Oblique	Left Oblique	Left Elevation
Left Elevation Palladian Window Detail	Left Rear Oblique	Rear Elevation	Right Elevation Front	Right Elevation Rear
Interior Narthex	Interior Chancel	Interior Sanctuary	Interior Palladian Window	Interior Southeast Stairwell
Interior Northwest Stairwell	Interior First Floor Hallway	Interior Second Floor Hallway	Cemetery

Providence Methodist Church, constructed in 1919-20, is significant architecturally as an outstanding and remarkable example of an early twentieth-century Neo-Classical sanctuary in rural lower South Carolina. The church was designed by the renowned Columbia, South Carolina architect Charles Coker Wilson, one of the most successful and influential South Carolina architects of the early twentieth century. The church building, inclusive of the sanctuary and rear educational/administrative wings, is laid out in a slightly modified cruciform plan and features a gable-front, temple-form, edifice with a central tetrastyle portico, simplified Roman Doric order limestone columns, pilasters and entablature, a boxed cornice with pedimented gables, numerous bull’s eye windows, and remarkable large stained glass Palladian windows. In particular, its outstanding sanctuary windows, which church members insist were purchased from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio at the time of construction, make the church a noteworthy property combining Wilson’s fine church architecture with outstanding examples of early twentieth-century art glass. To the rear of the church is a large cemetery that contributes to the significance of the property. It contains the burial plots of more than 400 parishioners and community members dating to 1856, though fewer than fifteen individuals were buried there prior to 1880. Listed in the National Register September 25, 2009.

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