Parliament Buildings

The Parliament Buildings otherwise called The Public Buildings, or all the more infrequently Parliament House, is the seat of the Parliament of Barbados. Worked somewhere in the range of 1870 and 1874, the structures have been the gathering place for the two assemblies of Parliament since 16 June 1874, and a previous site of Colonial organization of Barbados. It comprises of two structures in the neo-Gothic engineering style, and are reminiscent of the Victorian time of Great Britain.

The structures are arranged along the north bank of the Constitution River and are flanked by Upper Broad Street and National Heroes square toward the south deliberately at the core of the capital city Bridgetown. Preceding the foundation of the structures the lawmaking body met at the Town Hall expanding on Coleridge Street. In 1989 the Public Buildings were authoritatively renamed the Parliament Buildings by Act of Parliament. In 2011 the two structures were assigned as UNESCO ensured properties inside the World Heritage Site of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison area.

The development of the structures was met with a few postponements. Be that as it may, in 1860 there was yet another fire in Bridgetown, the Government chose to buy the land which they accepted would be a shockingly better site than the one whereupon they had beforehand concurred. Subsequent to asking for and collectively tolerating the plan of John F. Bourne, the then Superintendent of Public Works, the Committee welcomed tenders for the development of the west building.