Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Parish Church of St John-the-Evangelist Clanwilliam, Western Cape Sophia Wharton Myddleton (Sophy) GRAY: Architect

Date: 1859 Type: Church Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 32°10'43.99" S 18°53'34.30" E Alt: 90m

See more photographs The doors, pews and carved alter of this Parish Church are fine examples of the use of the local Cape cedar (Wadringtonia wallichii) wood, a now scarce and critically endangered tree. References: Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 357 Martin, Desmond. 2005. The Bishop's churches. Cape Town: Struik. pg 74-75 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 186, 207 Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 105