Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Lighthouse, Mouille Point Cape Town, Western Cape Charles Cornwallis (alias Collier) MICHELL: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the CAPE COLONY: Architect

Date: 1842 : 1865 Type: Lighthouse Status: Extant but altered   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°53'57.03" S 18°24'42.02" E Alt: 7m

Mouille Point Lighthouse stood in the grounds of the present-day Granger Bay campus of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) at Mouille Point. It commenced operation on 1 July 1842. The lighthouse was decommissioned on 15 April 1906. All that remains is the lower third of the lighthouse shaft - capped by a modern concrete slab. Submitted by Bev Young, May 2019 The Green Point Lighthouse is often mistaken for the Mouille Point Lighthouse. The original lighthouse, designed by Charles Michell and completed in 1842, had a pyramidal shape. It was replaced by the second lighthouse, which had a cylindrical tower shape and is still partly extant, in 1865. Books that reference Lighthouse, Mouille Point Hoberman, Gerald. 2011. Lighthouses of South Africa : pocket edition. Cape Town - London - New York: The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection. pg 21 Williams, Harold. 1993. Southern Lights : Lighthouses of Southern Africa. Cape Town: William Waterman Publications. pg 8-9