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“...Victoria, the
brass cross at the altar by the Church of Antigua, and
the lectern by the Church of Barbados on the occasion
of Bishop Austin’s jubilee. The Gothic Shrine made of
carved oak in the north-west transept was dedicated
in 1930 to the memory of Bishop W. P. Austin, first
Bishop of Guiana, and Primate of the West Indies,
and his successor, as Bishop of Guiana, Bishop W. P.
Swaby.
In High Street, which runs south from the Georgetown
Club, the two most conspicuous buildings are the Vic-
toria Law Courts and the Town Hall, a modem Gothic
building designed by Father Ignatius Scoles, S.J., and
erected in 1889. The Law Courts were designed by
Baron Siccama, the great Dutch engineer, and opened
on Queen Victoria’s birthday, May 24th, 1887. In...”
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