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St Mary of the Wayside Catholic Church
Maryvale, Johannesburg, Gauteng

Antonius (Anton) Johannes Cornelis VOORVELT: Architect
Armando BALDINELLI: Artist

Date:1959
Type:Roman Catholic Church
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
26°09'09.11" S 28°05'16.80" E Alt: 1677m

[The] most striking exterior feature [of this building] is an enormous mosaic framed symmetrically by two identical towers. The artist was Italian émigré artist Armando Baldinelli, a good friend of Voorvelt and, like him a member of this congregation.

(Nicholas Clarke in Common Ground 2021:111)


References:

Clarke, Nicholas J, Fisher, Roger C & Kuipers, Marieke C . 2021. Common Ground : Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges 1902-1961. The Netherlands: LM Publishers. pg 111, 112 ill