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Savanna-la-mar Baptist Church

Site details

Status
Declared
Date
9 May 2002
Category
Churches, Cemeteries and Tombs

About this site

The Baptist Church in Savanna-la-Mar was erected in 1835. It was destroyed by fire on the 23rd November 1839 and rebuilt in 1840. The Church is very simple in architectural form with a rectangular floor plan. The facade is symmetrical with an arrangement of four pointed arch window openings in the form of a crucifix.

Two strategically placed projecting porches provide shelter for the entrances. There is an arrangement of five large pointed-arch windows on each side of the building. The roof is of a steep gable-ended construction.

Savanna-la-mar Baptist Church