Until recently those who had business in the District Court had to go over some stone slabs covering the drain, one of which was a tombstone turned upside down. Happily no such desecration is now possible, as the stone is placed in the church at present. It is to the memory of Johanna Maria Bax, a child of 10 months. She was born in Colombo, and was the daughter of Johan Bax, afterwards Governor of Cape Colony, and Aletta Hinloopen, the daughter of Jacob Hinloopen, a Judge and Councillor of Amsterdam. It is the best specimen of carving in relief in the church, the arms being the quartered arms of the two Bax families, with a shield of pretence charged on them.
