The South Church is a Protestant Christian place of worship located in Andover, Massachusetts, US.

When it was found that the majority of the citizens lived in the southern part of the town (present day Andover), the idea was proposed to build a new meeting house there.

[1] On October 18, 1709, the location of the new South Church was agreed upon and built "at ye Rock on the west side of Roger brook."

Samuel Phillips began preaching at the church on April 30, 1710 but was not officially its pastor until the parish's founding on October 17, 1711.

[9] Again in 1788 another meeting house (pictured above left) was built in a nearby location after receiving complaints of a long walk by members of the parish living west of the Shawsheen River.

[10] During construction, the Trustees of Phillips Academy invited the parish to attend mass in their meeting hall up the hill.

The first person to be buried there was Robert Russel in December 1710 however the earliest surviving inscription is on Mrs. Ann Blanchard's stone, who died on February 29, 1723.

[13] In the early 18th century it was custom for the bearers to carry the dead, often miles, from their place of death to the cemetery.

Reverend Phillips introduced practices that gave bearers white and later purple gloves while carrying the coffin to the grave.

[14][15] All ordained ministers in attendance and those who gave gratis in the months leading to his death wore gloves.

At the time of the second pastor Johnathan French's death in 1809, the Church led the family in their mourning and draped the pulpit in black.