flowers blooming at every season of the year. Camellias and roses grace the area around the sundial adjacent to a monument honoring Samuel and Caroline Gillman. The churchyard is part of Charleston’s Gateway Walk Across the churchyard from the Sanctuary stands Gage Hall, a parish house built in 1893 that provides spaces for church offices, meetings, and religious education as well as concerts and receptions. It was once the site of the Gage Hall debates, a series of discussions on controversial topics that was broadcast on radio during the 1960s. The heavy duty range in the kitchen was bought for the church when it hosted one of the first Head Start programs in Charleston. Volunteers from the congregation helped teach and provided lunches for the children. Today, coffeehouse concerts are held regularly to fund field trips for inner city school children. Gage Hall was named for Alva Gage, the main supporter of the church for many years. He provided funds for the building, specifying how it was to be used, and left much of his fortune to the church. He is buried in the churchyard. In 2013, a passage was cut through the wall of the entryway to provide wheelchair access to the sanctuary. This required the removal of many of the original bricks. The congregation decided to use the bricks that were removed to build a memorial to the enslaved people who worked to build the church. The memorial is in the churchyard near the church entrance. Affixed to the front is a metal bird looking backwards. It is a Sankofi, which is an African symbol meaning “learning from the past in order to move forward”. An inscription dedicates the monument to “the enslaved workers who made these bricks and helped build our church." See also Unitarian Universalist Association List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places listings in Charleston, South Carolina The Religious Education Annex, located behind Gage Hall, was constructed in 1997-98 as a classroom building with an apartment above for the church sexton. References External links Circular Congregational Church of Charleston Unitarian Church, Charleston County (6 Archdale St., Charleston), including 10 photos, at South Carolina Department of Archives and History Churches in Charleston, South Carolina Unitarian Universalist churches in South Carolina National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Churches completed in