 It was constructed from timber, and it would stay intact for the next 95 years.Some years after the timber church had been completed, it began to deteriorate due to lack of maintenance, climatic conditions, and severe fluctuation in the congregation's size.Consequently, in 1702 when the church was again burned down, during a failed English effort to take over the city led by South Carolina colonist James Moore, the church would vanish from the town for over ninety years.