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Ninety seconds on St. Peter's Church
From eleven to three, Monday to Saturday, volunteers open the church to visitors. Give the churchyard as long as the nave: its eastern half holds the grave of a governor assassinated in 1973.
Look up once you are inside the cedar doors: exposed Bermuda cedar beams over rough wooden pillars, with candlelit chandeliers between them. The fabric around the three-tier pulpit is older than the rest of the building.
Find the altar, made in 1615 under Richard Moore, the first governor; no older Bermudian woodwork survives. The font, more than 500 years old, came over with the first settlers, and the bishop's throne is thought to have come from a shipwreck.
Outside, walk both walled graveyards. Near the back entrance, look for the old cedar whose branches once held the church bell.
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