East Tortola - St Philips Church Ruins

Also called the Church at Kingstown, only the walls remain of the 19th C St Philips Church. The church was the principal house of worship for a community of freed slaves established in 1833 and known as the "Kingstown Experiment". Most of the community were survivors from a shipwrecked slave vessel (c 1815) and received the land and parish after working some years as plantation laborers.