Completed in 1859, the Church of the Nativity is one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiological Gothic architecture in the South.

It is also one of the least-altered structures by the hand of Frank Wills. The English-born Wills, along with James Renwick and Richard Upjohn , led the Gothic Revival movement in American religious architecture.

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