Anglican Diocese of Barbados

Henry's Lane, Collymore Rk, St. Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados, BB11156
Phone: (246) 426-2762. Fax: (246) 426-0871. E-mail: diocesansec@anglican.bb
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Holy Cross

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Bernard Been Phone: (246) 423-0409 Times of Services Sunday 9.00 am Wednesday 9.00 am St Raphael Facebook Page UPCOMING EVENT HISTORY Holy Cross Church owes its existence to Christopher Codrington, founder of Codrington College who died on Good Friday 1710.  He left his estates to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), to be administered by them as a trust for the executing of his famous Will to found a College for the training of priests, and for the betterment in soul and body of the people on his estates. In 1712,  the SPG sent out the first Catechist to minister to the people on the estates, and soon many were baptized and admitted to the other sacraments of the Church. In 1819,  a small wooden Chapel called  Society Chapel because it was owned by the SPG was built to serve the people, but it was destroyed soon after by a lesser hurricane.  A stone Chapel was built to replace it and was opened on June 3, 1821.  This, too, was destroyed by the hurricane of 1831.  The present Chapel was built and consecrated by Bishop William Hart Coleridge on July 30, 1833      .                In 1864,  the Chapel was enlarged adding the north aisle and the Sanctuary.  This work was designed by Bishop Richard Rawle, Principal of Codrington College and Chaplain of the Chapel who did much of the carving and bore much of the cost from his own income. The South Transept which was first used as a Vestry was also added.   The Pulpit was carved by one of Bishop Rawles  pupils, Mr. Benjamin Thorne. The hurricane of 1898 greatly damaged the Chapel destroying all the stained glass windows except the central one. In 1954, extensive repairs and alterations, including the present two coral stone Altars, were carried out.  On July 11 the same year, the new coral stone Altars, the High Altar to the Holy Cross (hence its present title), and the side Altar to Our Lady and St. Christopher were consecrated by Bishop Gay Lisle Griffith Mandeville.  On this occasion, the name was changed from Society Chapel to the Chapel of Holy Cross. Holy Cross was made a full Ecclesiastical Parish in the Diocese in with the appointment of a Priest-in-Charge in 1974. FORMER CLERGY 1712 1715 1725 1743     1754 1759 1789 1793     1801 1818 1827     1831 1843 1848 1852 1860 1861 1863     1864 1866     1867 1881-1882 1889 1889 1890     Joseph Holt Charles Love Thomas Wilkie Joseph Bewsham Thomas Falcon Thomas Hodgson Husbands William Thomas William Marshall Harte John Hothersal Pinder John Packer Thomas Watts E.H. Parry Richard Rawle John Bradshaw M.A. Blagg E.P. Smith Abel Phillips Charles Webb Charles Clarke John Parry Alban Henry Wright Samuel Fitt Branch Arthur Hombersley William Lowndes 1891-1905 1905-1911 1911 1913 1913 1918-1944 1946-1948 1948 1954 1955-1960 1960-1967 1967-1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1974-1976 1976-1979 1979-1987 1988-1991 1991-1994 1995-2000 2000-2005 2006- Frederick Gilbertson Frederick Julian Briggs Arthur Henry Anstey Harold Edwin Doggett Edward Joseph Lee John Cecil Wippell C.A. Sayer Walter Eric Dash G.K. Wrigley Humphrey Webster Whistler William Henry (Gabriel) Sanford Claud M. Lunniss Ulric Smith Oswald Everton Jones Harry Callaghan Noel FitzAllan Titus Overton Gilkes Bernard McF. Griffith Harold St. Clair Tudor Geoffrey DeCarlos Mayers Monrelle Theophilus Williams John Walder Dunlop Holder Erma Ismay Ambrose Kim Welch