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Date: 1831 Type: Hall Status: Demolished Street: Burg Street (cnr Church Street

This building was originally a Wesleyan chapel and mission house. After the Metropolitan Methodist Church was built at the other end of the block in 1879, the building was "transformed into the well-known Metropolitan Hall, in which are carried on a Sabbath school and other departments of church work" (Whiteside, 1906). The present Methodist House and Metropolitan Methodist Hall now occupy the site. Nineteenth-century drawings of the building in its original form as a chapel and mission house show that the latter part (at the Church Street corner) had three storeys. The chapel had an elaborate facade, and a raised front stoep typical of Cape Town buildings of the time. Goad's 1895 insurance plan indicates that, after conversion, the ground floor of the former chapel was occupied by the hall (which could seat 700, according to the 1897 Cape Town Guide), while the upper floor was divided into offices and the former mission house into classrooms. (Arthur Radburn, July 2025)