 Contact Artefacts | MenuHomeUpfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Boven or Nieuwe Kerk Herman SCHUTTE: Architect 1847 J KREITZMAN: Architect 1847 |  | |
| A commission was appointed in October 1832, to undertake construction of the new church. It chose a plan submitted by Petrus (or Pieter) Johannes Grové. Governor Sir Lowry Cole laid the foundation stone on 18 April 1833, but work stopped only four months later, because of a dispute between the commission and Grové, and because the commission decided to give priority to the construction of the Groote Kerk, which replaced the structurally unsound "old" church on Church Square. It was not until eleven years later, in September 1844, that work resumed, now with Herman Schutte as the project architect. He died shortly afterwards, and was apparently succeeded by J. Kreitzman. Eventually, the building was inaugurated on 27 October 1847. (Arthur Radburn, December 2025) It was demolished in 1960, after the congregation had moved to a newly built church on Kloofnek Rd, the NG Church Tamboerskloof. See also Afrikaans Wikipedia. References:
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