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

Post Office
Parys, Free State

William Benjamin Turner NEWHAM: Design Architect
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT: Architect
Florence Wilgeforde (Wilgy) Agnes VANN-HALL: Artist tiled panels

Date:1936
Type:Post Office
Style:Baker School
Status:Extant
Street:Cor Buiten and Dolf Streets

 


Click to view map

Coordinates:
26°54'05.87" S 27°27'30.02" E

The building is noteworthy for the six fine Ceramic Studio tiled panels inset into the external facades by the artist Wilgy VANN-HALL, the English bond brickwork, the square facebrick chimney stack surmounting the pyramidal roof and the fine massing and proportions.

[William MARTINSON, October 2010]


Books that reference Post Office

Osthoff, Gernot . 2022. Post Office Murals of South Africa. South Africa: Gernot Osthoff. pg 82-83, 83-89 ill