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St Bartholomew's Church
Qumbu district, Eastern Cape

Date:c1930
Type:Church
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
31°01'23.76" S 28°48'18.76" E Alt: 1103m

St Bartholomew's is now used by the Ethiopian Episcopal Church.

It would seem likely that this is a more modern foundation stone - possibly made of a cast terrazzo - with a painted inscription and placed into an older existing building.

The wording is provisionally transcribed below:

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ST BARTHOLOMEW'S
CHURCH

PHAKAMISELA KU
TIXO UZUKO
ELI LITYE LABEKWA NGU
PROVINCIAL NGHXWANA.
3.3.1956

(William Martinson June, 2022)