Codrington College’s buildings seem to have been lifted straight from an Oxford quadrangle yet blend perfectly with the surrounding hills and trees of St. John. Christopher Codrington, planter, scholar, soldier and philanthropist, died at Codrington in 1740 leaving his two estates in Barbados to an institution of higher education in “physic and chirurgery, as well as a divinity” so that good might be done to men’s souls and their bodies. The College is now affiliated with the University of the West Indies(UWI) and functions as the Anglican Church of the Province of the West Indies.
