St. Charles' Church and remnants of the walls of the King's Yard

St Charles' Church and King's Yard wall
National Monument in Sierra Leone
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Monument type	Monument; ( church )
location	Regent at Freetown
Geographic coordinates :	8 ° 20 '0 " N , 13 ° 4' 0" W Coordinates: 8 ° 20 '0 " N , 13 ° 4' 0" W.
Emergence	1809-1816
Recognized ; by the Monuments and Relics Commission	1959
Sponsorship
Website	Website

The St. Charles 'Church and remnants of the walls of the King's Yard ( English St Charles' Church and King's Yard wall ) are a national monument of the African state of Sierra Leone . It is located in Regent near Freetown . St. Charles is the oldest stone church in Sierra Leone and the third oldest stone church in Africa.

St. Charles Church is in the Kings Yard . Kings Yards were established by colonial administrations in all the villages around Freetown in the first decade of the 19th century; the freed slaves found their first admission here until they could be settled in the surrounding area and inland. Part of the border walls of Kings Yard in Regent can still be seen today.

history

The Anglican Church of St. Charles was named in honor of the British Governor Charles MacCarthy (1764-1824), who resolutely promoted the settlement of freed slaves in the area around Freetown and the building of churches and schools. The Church in Regent was built by Reverend William Augustine Bernard Johnson in 1816, who led the congregation, which was founded in 1812, until his death in 1823. The congregation, made up of freed slaves of various origins, grew rapidly under his leadership, so that the church had to be expanded several times. After Johnson's death there was a decline.

Web links

Official website of SierraLeoneHeritage.org (English)
Documentation and Inventory of Immovable Cultural Heritage 2009 (English; PDF; 35 kB)
Network presence of the parish with a detailed description of the local history (English)
Historical photographs of the church (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c St Charles' Church and King's Yard wall. SierraLeoneHeritage.org, 2002. Retrieved June 12, 2014
↑ St. Charles churches from the time of the British Empire are patronized by Charles I , who is venerated as a martyr and saint in Anglo-Catholicism . His feast day is January 30th ( The Calendar ).
↑ Johnson (1787–1823) was born Wilhelm August Bernhard Jansen in Hanover . Like other German Lutherans, he served the British Church Mission Society , came to Sierra Leone as a teacher in 1816 and was ordained in 1817 . In 1823 he had to return to Europe due to illness and died during the crossing.

[heritage-1] St Charles' Church and King's Yard wall. SierraLeoneHeritage.org, 2002. Retrieved June 12, 2014

[2] St. Charles churches from the time of the British Empire are patronized by Charles I , who is venerated as a martyr and saint in Anglo-Catholicism . His feast day is January 30th ( The Calendar ).

[3] Johnson (1787–1823) was born Wilhelm August Bernhard Jansen in Hanover . Like other German Lutherans, he served the British Church Mission Society , came to Sierra Leone as a teacher in 1816 and was ordained in 1817 . In 1823 he had to return to Europe due to illness and died during the crossing.