Built in 1820, the church was struck by a cannon ball during the 1862 Civil War Battle of Lewisburg. The "wound" is visible near the right corner of the structure. The boarded door entrance, right center, was used by slaves to enter the segregated balcony of the church for services.
'The Original Baptist Church (the Big Levels Church) erected in the 1800s. The ground was donated by Joseph Alderson, son of Rev. John Alderson, of Alderson.'
"The only Episcopal Church and Rectory ever erected and used up to the present in Lewisburg. Its principal donor in its erection and supporter was Mrs. Carrie Bloomer of Washington, D.C."