St. Peters Church is the oldest surviving church of Bermuda outside the British Isles. The original building of the church was made from wood consisting of a thatched roof though it was destroyed in a few years. It was rebuilt in 1713 with stone and several features were added to it, like a steeple.
The interior part of the church is made from Bermuda Cedar to expose cedar beams. The altar of the church was built in 1615 and was designed by Richard Moore who was Bermuda’s first governor and a well known carpenter. The front view of the church is 500 years old and was evoked by the first settlers of Bermuda. The plaques are decorated on the inside of the walls of the church and the outside is made of gravestones. The main feature of the exterior part, which consists of a graveyard, is the burial place of Governor Sir Richard Sharples and Captain High Sayers. The western part of the graveyard was reserved for burying slaves.
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