St. George’s Anglican Church

The Anglican Church of Saint George was built on the site of a former Protestant cemetery, which was granted in 1648 to the English consul by Hammouda Pasha of the Mouradite dynasty. This site notably served as the burial place of Marie, the Italian Protestant mother of Ramadhan Bey, who had her interred there in 1696. Among the notable figures buried at this site are Thomas Campion, English consul in Tunis between 1655 and 1666, the renowned consul Thomas Reade, and the American poet and consul John Howard Payne. Construction of the present church began in 1894, inspired by the design of the church in Patras, Greece, and it was inaugurated in 1901 by the Bishop of Gibraltar.