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Staatsmodel School Pretoria, Gauteng DEPARTEMENT PUBLIEKE WERKEN - ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK: Architect

Date: 1897 Type: School Status: Extant Street: Van der Walt Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°45'00.42" S 28°11'36.80" E Alt: 1326m

Sir Winston Churchill escaped from this building when, for a time, it was used to house prisoners-of-war during the Anglo-Boer War. Single-storied, of red brick with ochre dressings, it was very typical of the lesser Republican buildings produced in the drawing offices of the PWD. With the facade divided into the customary five sections, there are all the stock embellishments, such as the oversized stone finials topping the gables, and a positive forest of air vents. Greig, 1971 has it as 'The State Model School'. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Writings about this entry Dunston, Lola & Dunston, Tom. 1975. Young Pretoria 1889-1913. Pretoria: Dunston. pg 156, 304, 306 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 191 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 281 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 165 Fisher, Roger C The Third Vernacular: Pretoria Regionalism — Aspects of an Emergence: in Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW and Maré, E (Eds). 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal: pp 127 Holm, Dieter Kerkplaats and Capitalists: The First Architects in Context: in Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW and Maré, E (Eds). 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal: pp 65