churches
the parish church
Kingston Parish Church, South Parade, from Adolphe Duperly's 'Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica.' 1844
Very little excitement is to be
found in the Church of Eng land
Kingston parish church. The
church itself, with its rickety pews,
and creaking doors, and wretched
seats made purposely so as to
render genuflexion impossible,
and the sleepy, droning,
somnolent service are exactly
what was so common in
England twenty years since . . .
The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope, 1860
the methodist chapel
A history of the West Indies: containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island; with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civilization, but more especially of the missions which have been established in that archipelago by the society late in connexion with the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 1, Thomas Coke, 1808
page 420
The following year our chapel in Kingston was completed. It is eighty feet in length, and forty in breadth, and will contain about fifteen hundred persons. It has galleries on three sides, and is built exactly on the plan of our chapel at Halifax in Yorkshire, known to and admired by numbers of our friends in England. Underneath the chapel we have a hall, which is absolutely necessary in this very hot country, four chambers, and a large school-room.
page 421
The
chapel is situated on a very beautiful spot, called the Parade. It
commands from the balcony a prospect of part of the town, of the
harbour, and of the fields.
Two somewhat conflicting views of
the first Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel on East Parade,
'Coke chapel, in Kingston, is a fine brick structure.'
Coke Methodist Chapel, East Parade, from Adolphe Duperly's 'Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica.' 1844
