The Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption stands a block from St George's Anglican cathedral and could not look more different. It was built and rebuilt in stages between the 1820s and the 1940s, with the Belgian Benedictine architect Charles Verbeke responsible for the eccentric final version: a dark grey stone hybrid of Romanesque, Moorish, Byzantine and Gothic elements, with arches, turrets, dome and a domed campanile that look as if they were assembled from a catalogue of styles.
The interior is calmer — high vaulted ceilings, stained glass, a Stations of the Cross carved in dark wood. It is still a working parish church and is normally open. The architectural strangeness is the point: there is nothing else quite like it in the Caribbean.