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Date: 1904 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: Gale Rd   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'57.57" S 28°01'29.80" E Alt: 1712m

Wording on plaque erected jointly by Johannesburg City Heritage and The Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust. In 1904 Baker, Masey and Sloper designed this house, tiny chapel and its gardens for Archdeacon Furse. Using the koppie stone quarried on site, Sloper patiently taught the masons to shape the very hard rock. Elevated to Anglican Bishop of Pretoria (the See included Johannesburg) Furse continued to champion the mineworkers. He changed the Church's system of stipends by putting all Anglican priests into the same graded payroll, operating independently of the wealth or otherwise of each parish. In 1948 the house was listed as belonging to Mr and Mrs P Shearer. (MacMillan et al 1948:132) Books that reference House Archdeacon and Mrs Furse: Bishopskop Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pg 54 Greig, Doreen. 1970. Herbert Baker in South Africa. Cape Town: PURNELL. pg 214, 215 ill MacMillan, Allister & Rosenthal, Eric. 1948. Homes of the Golden City. Cape Town: Hortors. pg 132 van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1987. From Mining Camp to Metropolis - The buildings of Johannesburg 1886-1940. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pg 156 ill, 157 van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1975. Projek opname historiese gebou in Johannesburg. Eerste verslag. Parktown: Dept Kunsgeskiedenis. RAU. pg 9a, b