Prince George Winyah is one of the oldest continuous congregations in South Carolina, and the church building is one of the oldest churches in continuous service in South Carolina.

Prince George Winyah (Anglican) and Churchyard was named to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1971.

[1][2][3] Starting in 1716, Anglican parishes were electoral and administration units in South Carolina government.

In 1726, a wooden church was built inland on a bend of the Black River near Brown's Ferry and twelve miles from the present Georgetown.

[7] The earliest vestry records for Prince George Winyah are January 13, 1737.

[7][9] The church was built of English red bricks with local oyster shell mortar.

Brick pilasters flank the side doors and are at the corners of the church.

The roof is hipped over the sanctuary and has a Jacobean or Dutch gable at the entrance.

A stained glass window from St. Mary's Chapel at Hagley on the Waccamaw was installed.

In addition to parishioners and clergy of Prince George Winyah, the cemetery has the graves of several notable South Carolinians: Paul Trapier, who was a patriot and was elected to the Second Continental Congress; James H. Trapier, who was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, Rev.