This 1680 stone church is famous for displaying – in a glass case in the back – a copy of the marriage record of Horatio Nelson and Fanny Nisbet. If you peek beneath the red carpet in the center aisle, you’ll find a continuous row of tombstones of island notables who died in the 1700s.
St John’s Fig Tree Church
Nevis
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