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Augusta's Historic Churches
Saint
Paul's Episcopal Church
Located downtown at the east end of Riverwalk on Reynolds
Street downtown. This 1918 building is the fourth structure
on the site for St. Paul's, built after the fire that destroyed
much of the downtown area in March 1916. The church was built
in 1750 as part of the original Fort Augusta complex. The
Celtic cross in the rear churchyard, adjoining the Riverwalk,
designates the site of Fort Augusta, constructed by the British
in 1739. The cemetery around the church was used during colonial
days through 1816, and is the final resting place of many
notable Georgians including signer of the Constitution, William
Few.
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Sacred
Heart Cultural Center
A heartening and very spectacular example of a cherished piece
of architectural heritage, down on its luck, given a new lease
on life. Consecrated in 1901, the redbrick, twin-spired Romanesque
Catholic church summed up the highest skills of European artists.
Jewel-like tones of German stained-glass windows play against
the creamy white Italian marble columns, stations of the cross
and the ornate high altar. In the early 1970s, with much of
its congregation now in the suburbs, Sacred Heart's doors were
closed and the church deconsecrated and left to the mercy of
the elements and vandals.
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