Mandeville’s Courthouse, Jamaica

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Sheryl Stark
 

Built in 1817 in the Jamaican Georgian style, a two storey structure, the Mandeville Courthouse is a national monument. Enslaved labor and limestone were used to build ‘this bastion of justice’. The courthouse is the oldest building in Mandeville and is still in use today.

  

 

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