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Discover Old Courthouse and Jail, Crocus Hill, Old St Gerard’s Church, Wallblake House.
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heritage
On Crocus Hill, the Old Courthouse and Jail brings several chapters of Anguilla’s history together. The building served as an administrative centre as well as a court, post office and prison. Hurricane Alice destroyed its upper structure in 1955. The recent restoration pairs a reconstructed timber-clad upper floor with the surviving stone basement, making the contrast between light woodwork and heavy masonry part of its story.
architecture
The original St Gerard’s church was dedicated in 1966 at Wallblake in The Valley. A diocesan history recalls parishioners gathering stones from the beaches for its distinctive front. Pale pebble borders frame larger coloured stones, while stained glass adds another kind of colour above the entrance. The small chapel connects a recognisable piece of architecture with the practical work of the community that helped build it.
Source: Diocese of St John’s–Basseterre
architecture
Wallblake House stands in The Valley, Anguilla's capital. The eighteenth-century plantation house has been restored and is identified by the island's tourism authority as its surviving example of that building type. It gives the island's colonial heritage a particular physical setting through which that history can be examined.
Source: Anguilla Tourist Board
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