[2] The buildings design was inspired by Baltimore Basilica in Baltimore, Maryland.It contains a number of Scottish symbols in the stained glass windows and a symbol of Scotland – the thistle, on the wrought iron grilles.

Their building replaced an earlier, wooden church, whose location is marked in the churchyard with tartan flags.

For years after, the story was told that the bells were never replaced to honor the Confederate dead.

First Scots made plans to bring the seven working bells to Charleston and hang them in their towers.

The southern tower, however, was found to be too weakened from the 1886 Charleston earthquake to support the six smaller bells.