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St Luke's School - First Swellendam, Western Cape

Date: n.d. Type: School Status: Extant Street: 72/76 Voortrek Street

Old St Luke's School, also Hulzer Building. A mid-l9th-century flat-roofed building with stepped-up parapet, now consisting of three units of three bays, its windows now minus its hood-moulds. It was a school belonging to St Luke's Anglican church alongside, one of its pupils being ME Rothmann, the authoress. [Fransen p460.] 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 460