All Saints Church, Uniondale

All Saints Church, Uniondale

All Saints Church, Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa is an Anglican church designed by Sophy Gray, wife of Robert Gray, the first bishop of Cape Town.[1][2]

The church was built in 1869 and is located at 33 Voortrekker Street, Uniondale and is a listed heritage site.[3]

The church is typical of Gray's design: the characteristic steeply sloping roof (more than 55°), the diagonal buttresses, the three narrow lancet windows in the eastern wall and the nave is twice the width of the chancel. The thatched roof is supported on 12 scissor trusses.[4]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Menache & David 2012, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Fransen 2004, p. 522.
  3. ↑ "All Saints Church, 33 Voortrekker Street, Uniondale". sahra.org.za. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  4. ↑ Martin 2005, p. 86.

  • Fransen, Hans (2004). A Guide to the Old Buildings of the Cape: A Survey of Extant Architecture from Before C1910 in the Area of Cape Town-Calvinia-Colesberg-Uitenhage. Cape Town: Jonathan Ball. ISBN 978-1-86842-191-6.
  • Martin, Desmond (2005). The Bishop's Churches. Struik. ISBN 978-1-77007-155-1.
  • Menache, Philippe; David, Darryl Earl (2012). A Platteland Pilgrimage : 102 country churches of South Africa. Booktown Richmond Press. ISBN 978-0-620-54170-1.

Coordinates: 33°39′22″S 23°07′42″E / 33.656085°S 23.128385°E / -33.656085; 23.128385

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