Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Gaol - Now Western Cape Archives Cape Town, Western Cape William Henry KÖHLER: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the CAPE COLONY: Architect RENNIE SCURR ARCHITECTS: Restoration Architects 1999

Date: 1855-59 : 1999 Type: Gaol Status: Extant Street: 72 Roeland Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'53.47" S 18°25'25.75" E Alt: 36m

See more photographs See also P PENKETH. Only the entrance and perimeter wall of the old prison are extant. The prison buildings themselves were demolished in the 1980s, and replaced with the present archives buildings, which were handed over in November 1989. (Arthur Radburn, April 2023) Also referred to as Roeland St Gaol. References: Cole, DI. 2002. The building stones of Cape Town : a geological walking tour. Cape Town: Council for Geoscience. pg 13-14 Gaylard, Shaun & McDougall, Brett . 2022. RSA 365 : 365 Drawings of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Blank Ink Design. pg 40 ill 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 225