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St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church was consecrated in 1876 after it was built on land donated by Frances Kimble Butler Leigh. Rev. James Wentworth Leigh, an Anglican minister who had moved to McIntosh County in 1873 as Frances’s husband, obtained the church’s designs. It was built to resemble an English church. The newly freedmen built the church to serve as the Black Episcopalian church. The church was named after a martyred Black saint.
Unfortunately, the church was destroyed in an 1896 hurricane. It was rebuilt and severely damaged again in the 1898 hurricane. Completed in 1901, the church is one of the most complete tabby buildings on the coast.
