The Catholic cathedral on Church Street dates from 1818, rebuilt after the original was destroyed by fire. It sits beside York House (the parliament building) on a ridge above the Carenage, and its twin towers are one of the defining images of St. George's seen from the harbour. The interior is cool and relatively plain — whitewashed walls, dark wooden pews — but the scale feels right for an island capital.
Church Street in this stretch is worth a slow walk for its concentration of colonial-era religious architecture. The Anglican Church is a short distance away, built in 1825, and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church dates from 1830. Three centuries of competing missionary zeal compressed into a few blocks of steep, narrow lane.