Basseterre Co-Cathedral of Immaculate Conception

[1] In the early stages of the French occupation of Basseterre, a Roman Catholic church was erected in the town by the Jesuits and dedicated to Our Lady.

Notre Dame was burnt to the ground in 1706 during the Anglo-French War by English soldiers who were billeted there.

After the take-over of the island by the English in 1713, Roman Catholics were forbidden by law to worship in public.

The steady influx of Portuguese migrants from the island of Madeira from 1835 onwards strengthened the growth of the Roman Catholic community.

In 1927, it was demolished and replaced by a modern edifice on the same site on East Square Street.