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St Philip's Church District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape George Murray ALEXANDER: Architect

Date: 1885 Type: Anglican Church Status: Demolished Street: Chapel St

Amongst the new churches built during this time [1880s], the arrival of the complex plan covered by equally complex roofs was seen. There also developed the fashion for using Table Mountain sandstone. As the material cannot readily take a fine finish, it resulted in the use of simplicity of detail and resultant churches have a certain crudeness about them. Externally the ventilator fleche became a standard feature. St Philips (1885) in District Six by G. Alexander, is a good example of this type of church. (Radford 1979:199) As this church no longer exists it is safe to assume that it was demolished and replaced by the BAKER and MASEY church built in 1898. References: Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Cape Town: Unpublished Thesis UNISA. pg 360 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 110, 199