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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOn 27 March 1909 a decision was taken that Joubertina (Eastern Cape) is in need of a church. The stone for the exterior was to be sourced from the region and the interior of the church should be adorned with “oprecth geelhout” (yellowwood) from the Tsitsikamma. The yellowwood was then carted with ox wagons from the Knysna region and 400 loads of stone at a cost of R0.25 per load were were carted from a cliff between Twee Riviere and Joubertina. Building work completed two years later in 1911. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another of my favourite Sophy Gray churches. The plans for St Mark\u2019s were based on Littlemore Church, near Oxford in England. Three stonemasons were used to build the church and it was completed in 13 months. The windows might be the oldest in South Africa as it dates back to before Van Riebeeck arrived in the Cape of Good Hope. It was recovered from a church in Germany during the French Revolution, brought to England and then found its way to South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dutch Reformed church in Oudtshoorn is an Otto H\u00e4ger design and dates back to the high days of ostrich feather boom. It is a beautiful sandstone building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Francis Xavier Church in Melacca, Malaysia was built in 1856, in honour of St. Francis Xavier, a prominent 16th-century Catholic missionary. The church was believed to be modelled after the Cathedral of St. Peter in Southern France, Montpellier, which followed closely the older church\u2019s original construction, except for a portico which was later added in 1963. To date St Francis Xavier Church still serves its function as a Catholic church, with regular mass services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dutch Reformed Church in Prince Albert was built circa 1865 and was declared a national monument on 15 July 1983 and takes the shape of a Greek cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dutch Reformed Church in Graaff Reinet. Constructed between April 1886 and consecrated in 1887, the church is loosely modeled on Salisbury Cathedral in England. It must have been irritating to the townspeople when the nearby town of Aberdeen finished a church with a taller steeple! They say this Dutch Reformed Church is the only known church in South Africa and possibly in the world to have a kitchen and a chimney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church, Stellenbosch was established in 1686. The church building was consecrated in 1723 after the first building was destroyed in a fire in 1710. The cross church was enlarged in 1863. Burials were initially permitted under the church floor. About 100 people were buried inside the church before the floor was tiled. In 1801 the first crypts were allowed outside the church building. This continued until 1849 when the first municipal cemetery was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Methodist Church in Oudtshoorn is a sandstone building overgrown with creepers. I could not find any details of this little jewel, but will keep researching and update when I find something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marty Myrtle Church, Bonnievale – the only church in the world believed to be built on the request of a child. The floor is made of marble from Italy the stained glass windows comes from England, the main door from Zanzibar (made originally for a jail and over 300 years old), the side doors out of wood from Knysna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Methodist church at the farm Winston on the H7 between Cathcart and Hogsback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will find this proud church which was designed by Folkert Wilko Hesse in 1904 in the village of McGregor in the Boland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Anglican Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin stands just off Market Square next to the old Public Library in Port Elizabeth. This is another one of th 53 Sophie Gray designs. The church was gutted in a fire in 1895 through a demented pyromaniac, Mary Livingston Johnstone, who also set the Hill Presbyterian Church ablaze and attempted to do the same at St. Augustine’s. She was later sent to Robben Island. The fire resulted in the church being remodeled into the layout existing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Anglican Cathedral of St Michaels and St George stands in the heart of Grahamstown. Building work on the cathedral started way back in 1824 already and lasted for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discovered this Dutch Reformed Church of De Hoop on some of the back roads in the Klein Karoo near Oudtshoorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n This view caught my eye as I entered into this small church of St Patrick’s on the Hill in Hogsback. In the garden is a stone arch with a brass bell that stands as a memorial for the Rev Dr Bride Dixon, first woman priest in South Africa, and doctor on the mountain for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daar is alreeds in 1386 met bouwerk aan die Katolieke Duomo met sy 135 toringtjies begin en het oor etlike jare gestrek. Ek staan verstom oor al die detail wat die vaardige vakmanne aangebring het en wonder altyd hoeveel tyd hulle bestee het om so ‘n werk uit Candoglia marmer en steen te skep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cathedral is located on the spot of the past slave market, which was shut down in 1873. It is positioned on the eastern side of <\/span>Stone <\/span>Town and is the oldest Christian Church in <\/span>East Africa. This grand cathedral was built in 1877 by the Universities Mission in Central Africa (UMCA) after the slave trade was eradicated. Die kruis in die kerk is gemaak van die boom waaronder Livingstone oorspronklike begrawe is in Zambi\u00eb.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anglican Cathedral where the services are held in Swahili except for each first Sunday of the month when it is conducted in English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Van ver af sien jy die Rooms Katolieke katedraal in Stonetown se toring as jy in die stegies van die ou stad stap. Ons was gelukkig genoeg om op ons laaste Sondag in Zanzibar dit oop te kry terwyl daar ‘n diens aan was en kon ons dit ook van binne besigtig. St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Cathedral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n oOo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St Michaels and All Angels, Queenstown (EC). The first stone was laid in 1882 and is build on a traditional cruciform plan from local stone. This sandstone building you will find in the settlement of Riebeeck East in the Eastern Cape. Piet Retief, the Voortrekker leader, farmed in the area. oOo On 27 March 1909 a decision was taken that Joubertina (Eastern Cape) is in need of a church. The stone for the exterior was to be sourced from the region and the interior of the church should be adorned with “oprecth geelhout” (yellowwood) from the Tsitsikamma. The yellowwood was then carted with ox wagons from the Knysna region and 400 loads of stone at a cost of R0.25 per load were were carted from a cliff between Twee Riviere and Joubertina. 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