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Title: Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: Founded in 1829, the historical Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church has been the subject of drastic and unusual restoration measures, carried out by Gordon Verhoef and Krause, the well known Cape Town decorating company. The 700 mm thick walls were pushed aside by the roof structure and to remedy this craftsmen cut grooves 25 mm x 30 mm deep in two sets, 300 mm apart, on the inner and outer walls at eaves level. These grooves accommodated 12 mm thick high tensile steel cables anchored in steel plates at the end of the walls. The cables were then stressed hydraulically, secured and cut off flush with the face of the plates. They were then mortar caulked and faced up so that after re-decoration inside and outside one is unable to detect the building is now collared with steel. The history of the church goes back to the time when members of the Dutch Reformed Church living in Constantia and Simonstown, etc., found the distance to Cape Town becoming irksome. After some discussion as to whether a new church should be built in Mowbray or in Wynberg, Wynberg was chosen and application was made to the Government for a grant of land. In August 1831 the foundation stone was laid by Sir John Truter, father and founder of the congregation. Born in the Cape, he studied law and was for many years in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1809 he became fiscal and then, in 1812, Chief Justice. In 1820 he was knighted by King George IV, the first Afrikaner to be honoured. The church was finished in 18 months and dedicated in September 1832, but by 1843 the congregation had grown in size and two new wings were added. This enlarged church was in use until 1889 when the congregation had outgrown it again, and a new church was built on the site of the old one. The new church is substantially the same as the old one except for the spire which replaced an ornate lantern. Inside, the arched roof is supported by four grey granite pillars which were a gift from Cecil John Rhodes when the church was rebuilt. All that is left of the original structure is a little side building with a small bell arch which still summons the congregation to morning and evening services.
Identifier: islandora:17272

Title: Former New Apostolic Church, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: A night club and takeaways have replaced a New Apostolic church.
Identifier: islandora:17310

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15094

Title: Oldest house in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Culture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Built between 1763 and 1768, no. 71 Wale Street is believed to be the earliest dwelling house in Cape Town surviving in its original form. The building is to be converted to a museum and is part of the city council's larger plan for the restoration of the Malay Quarter. The house is the only example left of a wavy, moulded parapet that was a common feature in Cape Town at the end of the 18th century.
Identifier: islandora:17225

Title: St Thomas's Anglican Church, Camp Ground Road, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The church, recently rethatched, faces Camp Ground Road at Rondebosch. A transept and chancel, added to the stone building in 1903, complete the church as it stands to-day except for a vestry added later.
Identifier: islandora:17305

Title: St. Timothy's Church in Kensington, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Kensington (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Timothy's Church, Kensington, Cape Town, 1974.
Identifier: islandora:17334

Title: Catholic church of St. Joseph, Cape Town.
Subject: Kommetjie (Western Cape, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: On the hillside at Kommetjie a small church with a bell tower. This is the Catholic church of St Joseph, built by a devoted wife in honour of her husband. Guiseppe Rubbi came to South Africa from Italy at the turn of the century as a humble carpenter but struggled on to become one of the foremost builders in Cape Town. The Old Mutual building in Darling Street, which in its day was considered outstanding, was built by him. He owned one of the first four holiday homes in Kommetjie and loved to walk in the mountains behind. He expressed the wish that he could be buried there as the view was reminiscent of his birthplace, Marostica. When he died in 1946, Mrs Rubbi bought the piece of land where he used to sit and admire the view and had a tomb and ventilated vault erected there. She persuaded Bishop O'Reilly to allow her to build a chapel in memory of her husband. In 1948 Mr Garnelli, the nephew who had inherited the family business, built this chapel. No expense was spared. On the ceiling are three paintings in the style of an Italian church, with different marbles imported from the Alps and Vicenza for the altar and the floor. Around the walls are tablets depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross, and a mosaic of the Holy Mother and Child. When the church was completed, Mrs Rubbi arranged for a Salesian father to conduct a service there once a month, except at holiday times, when a priest came each Sunday. With foresight the Catholic Church had brought two adjoining plots and in 1968 when Ocean View township was established, a monastery was built behind the church. From then on, regular services were held in the church. Father Smeets looks after the new church at Ocean View and the local congregation from the kommetjie and Sun Valley areas.
Identifier: islandora:17274

Title: Old Cape Town Station, pre-1960s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Transport
Description: Inside the old Cape Town Station, prior to its demolition in the 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:17438

Title: Cape Town through microscope
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Here you see modern Cape Town through a microscope, and the analysis shows that the place is rapidly becoming a dense concrete jungle.
Identifier: islandora:15100

Title: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, circa 1950s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Church Buildings, Architecture, Urban development
Description: The portico of the old St. George's Cathedral was demolished in 1952. Cape Town people who might wish to see just how lovely it was, can do so - by going to London to look at St Pancreas Church from the local design was adapted. The site of the old portico is largely used as a car park. The picture shows a view of St George's Street with the Cathedral at the top.
Identifier: islandora:17354

Title: Church interior, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), circa 1945, Historic sites, Church buildings, Interior architecture, Leprosy
Description: The little church on Robben Island where once the lepers worshipped has been desecrated by sea birds.
Identifier: islandora:16529

Title: Men play golf in the backyard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Golfers, Residential buildings, Architecture, Gardens
Description: For the golf nut? This house at 4 Links Road, Pinelands, overlooks the 15th hole on the Mowbray Golf Course which Gary Player describes as one of the most beautiful in the world. It is selling at R49 000, having dropped from R70 000. Our Golf Correspondent observes there is too much weight on the right foot, too much swing in the shoulders, and a classic case of head up.
Identifier: islandora:15830

Title: Church Hall in Parow, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Church Hall in Parow, Cape Town, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17330

Title: Church of Christ, Scientist, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: On Monday it will be 100 years since the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist. This church in Orange Street, Cape Town, was built in 1920.
Identifier: islandora:17295

Title: Wale Street, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Roads, Transport
Description: Wale Street, 1954.
Identifier: islandora:17390

Title: St. John's Anglican Church, Cape Town, 1964
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Church reprieved: Along with towering shops and offices, the threat of demolition has cast its shadow over this old and beautiful church situated at the corner of Long Street and Waterkant Street. But because of its strategic position in the heart of the city, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, has decided that St. John's Church is to stay.
Identifier: islandora:17293

Title: Goods yard, Cape Town Station
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Transport, Economy
Description: Cape Town goods yard: Cape Town Railway Station.
Identifier: islandora:17435

Title: Tuynhuys, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Public buildings, Recreation, Architecture
Description: An official function at Tuynhuis, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17268

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: In 1926, not many years after the first houses were erected in South Africa's first garden city of Pinelands, the little Anglican church of St Stephen's was built. The Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone, laid the foundation stone, with General Smuts present.
Identifier: islandora:17281

Title: Church in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17327

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