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English: Established under the Church Act of 1706 as one of ten Anglican/Episcopal Church parishes in South Carolina, Christ Church also served as the seat of a local civil administrative district during the colonial era. Initially housed in a small wooden structure, a fire in 1725 destroyed the building, and the current building was constructed on the same foundation as the original structure in 1726. The church has been destroyed and rebuilt multiple times since then, though the original masonry walls have remained standing, and the roof shape and layout have remained relatively consistent features of the building with each reconstruction. The current building was destroyed by British troops during the American Revolutionary War in 1782, leaving only the masonry walls standing. When rebuilt in 1786, a cupola was added to the roof. In 1865, the building was again destroyed, this time by Union troops invading the region, with the reconstruction of the building taking until 1874, when it was reconsecrated. In 1924, the building was restored by John F. Maybank, a wealthy descendant of the church’s first warden, with a fund created to ensure the building was maintained properly, and a new fence built around the surrounding graveyard. In 1939, the Vestry House, which had sat in ruins since the Civil War, was rebuilt, with the remaining original walls being covered in stucco, and new bricks being left exposed, so as to show which portions of the building were original and which were reconstructions. In 1961, an addition to the church was constructed, which contained an office for the rector and a sacristy. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The congregation for the church remains active, though a newer church complex made up of three buildings was built further back from the road on the church grounds during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The congregation, like many in the South Carolina Lowcountry during the same time period, split from the Episcopal Church in 2012, and joined the Anglican Church in North America in 2017.