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A Tour of Barbados oldest home (1658), St. Nicolas Abbey. 🇧🇧

St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere.[2] It is similar to the English Jacobean-era manor houses of the first half of the seventeenth century, the period between the Tudor and Georgian styles, beginning in the reign of James I. History: St Nicholas Abbey has no church connection, it has always been a sugarcane plantation house. The exact origin of its name is not known but rumour has it that it was named after George Nicholas, husband to Berringer's granddaughter, Susanna. The house and estate was acquired by Sir John Gay Alleyne, 1st Baronet, who descended from one of the earliest English emigrants to Barbados, by his first marriage to Christian Dottin during 1746, and became one of the most successful sugar plantations in Barbados. Sir John introduced mahogany to Barbados and planted the impressive mahogany avenue leading to Cherry Tree Hill. St Nicholas Abbey was briefly owned by the slave-owning ancestors of Britain’s Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch from 1810 through 1824 although some references dispute the duration of Cumberbatch ownership. The house passed by marriage to Charles Cave in 1824. The abbey was no longer a functioning plantation after 1947. Sugar has been grown on the plantation since 1640 and there is still the evidence of the mill and sugar making edifices. Sugar was processed on the property until 1947, the cane is now trucked eight miles to the Portvale Sugar Factory for processing. His great-great-grandson Lt. Col. Stephen Cave OBE lived there from 1978 until his death in November 2003. Since 2006, the abbey is owned by local Barbadian architect, Larry Warren. Warren built the St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway on his estate, which was completed by the end of 2018. - Wikipedia-