"Codrington College: In addition to a prehistoric Amerindian occupation which is not the main focus of this proposal, the site has been continuously occupied since the mid-seventeenth century, first as a sugar plantation, and after 1710 as a sugar plantation supporting a college. The property entered sugar production in the 1640's as the Consett Estate, but was sold in the 1660's to the Codrington family. Extremely successful sugar planters, the second Christopher Codrington as well as his son, Christopher Codrington III, were appointed governors-general of the Leeward Island Station in Antigua. Christopher Codrington III was educated at All Souls, Oxford, and brought to Barbados much in the way of social improvement and new ideas in agriculture and architecture from his university education. Unmarried and childless, upon his death in 1710, Christopher Codrington III, willed his three Barbados sugar estates to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (S.P.G.; the developing missionary arm of the Church of England) with a long list of stipulations detailing construction of a college, education of its students, and management of the estates. The S.P.G. then began a program of construction and teaching which continued until the Codrington Trust was established in Barbados in 1983 to assume duties of management of the school and estates. During its tenure at Codrington the S.P.G. kept meticulous records of each year's activities, providing a documentary history of not only the college, but the sugar plantation itself, which are unparalleled in the Caribbean. The College today, affiliated with the University of the West Indies, offers degrees in theology, religion, church music and serves as the theological college of the Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies....
Major sites include St. Nicholas Abbey; Morgan Lewis; Codrington College; Newton Burial Ground.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
Postcard 1
Colonial Structures of Barbados showing St Nicholas Alley and Codrington College. Thanks so much to Guy of Canada.
Postcard 2
Cultural Icons of Barbados showing Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill and Sugar Cane in Barbados. Thanks to Guy of Canada.
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