Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard is a cemetery in , . Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard is situated nearby to the church , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist and Gibbes Museum of Art.

Church
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The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, located in . Designed by Brooklyn architect Patrick Keely, the construction of the cathedral started in 1890 to replace a cathedral that burned down in 1861.

Museum
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The , formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, is an art museum in . Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905. is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard.

Public building
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The were built between 1760 and 1772 by Daniel Blake, a planter from Newington Plantation on the Ashley River. The building was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. is situated 870 feet east of Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include French Quarter and Ansonborough.

Quarter
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The is a historic district and a section of downtown , , , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Quarter
is a neighborhood in . In 1726, Captain George Anson acquired a 64-acre tract from Thomas Gadsden. Anson's lands were divided into smaller parcels for development, and several streets were named either for his ships or for himself: George and Anson, Scarborough and Squirrel, and Centurion.

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is the largest and oldest city in the state of in the United States of America. Its historic downtown is on a peninsula formed by two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, flowing into the Atlantic, and protected from the open ocean by surrounding islands.

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Churchyard

Latitude
32.77685° or 32° 46′ 37″ north
Longitude
-79.93441° or 79° 56′ 4″ west
Open location code
8742Q3G8+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 284929882
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­grave_yard
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
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