Lennox J Hernandez
Broken and spartan, the Anglican Church of St Barnabas, located at Regent Street & Orange Walk, Bourda, Georgetown, opened as a relatively small building in 1884 in a north-south orientation with the main altar at the northern end, and, after a series of grand additions and alterations, consecrated in 1938 with an east-west orientation and the main altar at the east end, is no more.
The demolition of St Barnabas Church seems to have been first considered in 1969, thirty-six years after the series of grand additions and alterations that made the plain, but “neat and pretty” original church more spectacular, but which at the same time, became the building’s sword of Damocles, that led to its eventual demise. By the time this is read, the building would have been completely demolished and much written and said on the historic value of the building, the difficulties of the Anglican
