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Boys' Model School (Pietermaritzburg Collegiate Institute) Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Alfred SINGLETON: Architect

Date: 1864 Type: School Status: Unknown Street: Loop St

Kearney describes the building as 'in the colonial idiom. Narrow calssroom wings which surrounded "quads" were terminated with simple projecting gables and the roofs were punctuated by low "dormer" ventilators'. (Kearney 1973:56&218 ill) 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.