St. Peter's Church, St. George's
Their Majesties Chappell, St. Peter's Church, in St. George's, Bermuda, is the oldest surviving Anglican church in continuous use outside the British Isles. It is also reportedly the oldest continuously used Protestant church in the New World. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, St. George's Town is the oldest surviving English settlement in the New World, having been settled by the Virginia Company in 1612.
Saint Peter's Church.
Interior of St. Peter's.
The western side of the church.
The Bermuda cedar used as a belfry when St. Peter's Church was first built was toppled by a storm in 2003.
St. George's, located on the island and within the parish of the same names, settled in 1612, is the first permanent English settlement on the islands of Bermuda. It is often described as the third permanent British settlement in the Americas, after Jamestown, Virginia (1607), and Cupids, Newfoundland (1610), and the oldest continuously-inhabited British town in the New World, since the other two settlements were seasonal for a number of years.
St. George's harbour and town, seen from Fort George
Ordnance Island (left) and St. George's Town are overlooked by Fort George
The harbour at St. George's in 1854
St. George's Town, from Barrack Hill, 1857