St. Thomas' Anglican Church

St. Thomas was the first established community on Nevis and home to the first English settlement, Jamestown. Legend has it that Jamestown was lost in a tsunami in the late 1680s, but there is no archaeological evidence to support this story. In any case, the original settlement was abandoned, but the Church of St. Thomas on the hill has survived. St. Thomas is also the home the first Premier of Nevis and National Hero the Right Honourable Simeon Daniel who grew up in Barnes Ghaut.

This church was built in 1643 and is reputed to be the first church built in the Caribbean and the oldest. The church's cemetery houses the bodies of:

John Cottle, the planter that built Cottle Church for the planters and their slaves to worship. This is the only church of its kind. John Huggins, first owner of Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the New World. Other members of the Huggins Family and Nevisian aristocrats.