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“...Buildings.
Barclays Bank (Dominion; Colonial and Overseas) is
at the comer of Micoud and Bridge Streets, and the
Royal Bank of Canada at that of Victoria and Bourbon
Streets opposite the offices of the Castries Town Board.
The Cable Offices are in Micoud Street next to Bar- ]
clays Bank.
The Roman Catholic Church faces Columbus Square—
a grass plot of over three acres in extent, surrounded by j
broad walks and shaded by trees, which was formerly
the Place d’Armes. It is built of stone and iron in :
pseudo-Romanesque style from the design of Father
Ignatius Scoles, a priest from Demerara, who is said to I
have been a pupil of Pugin. The Carnegie Library is
also in the Square. I
Holy Trinity Church stands at the north comer of
the town adjoining the Botanical Gardens. It was I
built in 1832 and consecrated by Bishop Parry in 1834.
The chancel was added'in 1895. The Protestant faith
was first set up in St. Lucia in 1819, and the Protestants, I
some four hundred in number, were taxed to provide j...”
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