St Nicholas Abbey

St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery.

The house was later acquired by the eminent baronet, planter and legislator, Sir John Gay Alleyne, through his marriage to Christian Dottin.

Alleyne family traditions hold that Sir John planted the impressive mahogany avenue leading to Cherry Tree Hill.

St Nicholas Abbey was owned by the slave-owning ancestors of Britain’s Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch for at least 200 years.

[5] St Nicholas Abbey is currently a museum, successfully recreating 18th-century plantation life complete with; Wedgwood pottery, Chippendale furniture,[1] curvilinear Dutch gables with tall finials of carved coral stone and corner chimneys.