Contact Artefacts
please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.

Boys' Model School (Pietermaritzburg Collegiate Institute)
Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal

Alfred SINGLETON: Architect

Date:1864
Type:School
Status:Extant
Street:Loop St (now Jabu Ndlovu St)

Kearney describes the building as 'in the colonial idiom. Narrow classroom wings which surrounded "quads" were terminated with simple projecting gables and the roofs were punctuated by low "dormer" ventilators'.


References:

Kearney, Brian. 1973. Architecture in Natal from 1824-1893. Cape Town: Balkema. pg 56, 218 ill