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St Matthew's Anglican Church
Riversdale, Western Cape

Sophia Wharton Myddleton (Sophy) GRAY: Architect 1856
Sir Herbert BAKER: Architect 1901

Date:1856 : 1901
Type:Anglican Church
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
34°05'33.71" S 21°15'30.71" E Alt: 117m

Consecrated 1856 by Bishop Gray. Additions done by Baker in 1901.


References:

Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 473
Martin, Desmond. 2005. The Bishop's churches. Cape Town: Struik. pg 48-49
Menache, Philippe & David, Darryl Earl. 2012. A Platteland Pilgrimage : 102 country churches of South Africa . South Africa: Booktown Richmond Press. pg 12
Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 186, 207