St James Parish Church, Holetown, St James, Barbados
St James Parish Church stands on one of the oldest parcels of consecrated land on the Island often known in Barbados as God s acre The original wooden structure was built in 1628 near the landing site of the first English settlers to Barbados who arrived on February 17 1627 After a hurricane on August 31 1675 which devastated most of the island a stone structure replaced the former wooden building in the early 1690 s After nearly 200 years the walls of the original stone building began to decay and were partly demolished and replaced by a larger more substantial structure in 1874
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Location: Holetown, St James, Barbados
Photo credit: © Mark Summerfield / Alamy / Afripics
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