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Date: 1877 Type: School Status: Extant Street: 37 Somerset Rd/Moreland Terrace   Click to view map Coordinates: Alt: 31m

(SALQB Dec 1967:58) "It is a pity that all the buildings planned by Freeman for the Sacred Heart Convent, Somerset Road, in 1877 were not built. As it is, only a portion of the convent and school were finished, the church and ancillary buildings never being undertaken. The existing buildings, now unoccupied, are very competently designed and detailed, also being built in the local bluestone. As planned, the group would have been something unique in Cape Town, a High Victorian convent." (Radford 1979:196) All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Sacred Heart Convent and School 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 196, ill 78