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| | Book |  | | Author: | Picton-Seymour, Désirée | Year: | 1977 | Title: | Victorian Buildings in South Africa | Place: | Cape Town | Publisher: | AA Balkema |
A survey of the varied and exotic architectural styles of South African buildings constructed between 1850 and 1910 — a period loosely described as Victorian. But the scope is wider: for the period also covers the pre-1900 Transvaal Republican as well as the post-1900 Edwardian styles.
These rich and varied styles are the author's main interest: the houses, churches, schools, public and commercial buildings are described and fully illustrated: so are the architects and builders, and the materials they used.
During these great days of the British Empire places marked red on the map all had their share of almost interchangeable buildings; for this was the age of mass production and prefabrication, of cast-iron and corrugated-iron, materials ideally suited to the hotter climates, where weather conditions were often violent.
Chosen from pattern books and from foundry catalogues, architects working in South Africa exploited the rich variety of prefabricated ironmongery, and imported these from Europe to adorn and support buildings in both town and countryside, often transported overland for hundreds of miles: lamps and lamp fittings; drinking fountains; poles, brackets, spandrils and railings for verandahs; window frames and fanlights; lettering and ornaments; conservatories and bandstands; spiral staircases; and whole shopping arcades.
There are some 500 illustrations: most are photographs of buildings; and these are supplemented by more than a hundred of the author's drawings; together they provide a comprehensive visual record of extant buildings, with considerable detail.
A great part of the work has been based upon personal observation, for Desiree Picton-Seymour has travelled widely, through the length and breadth of the country: driven by a manifest enthusiasm for her subject she has tracked down architectural Victoriana, and conscientiously built up the record: the result is this exhaustive and exciting book.
The urgent need for a record of the fast-vanishing buildings of the past, says the author, provided the stimulus: "in my search for interesting buildings to draw, again and again I was confronted with the disappearance of a particular building I had remembered on some former visit to a city or dorp. 1 have drawn buildings since I could hold a pencil, and the highly ornate quality of late-nineteenth-century architecture seemed especially suited to my style. The patterned cast-iron verandahs and intricate roof-lines of these buildings were infinitely draw-able…" | | Link to WorldCat - find this book in a library near you |
Buildings linked to this bookAfrican Banking Corporation, n.d. : 1893 : 1900 : 1906 : 1912, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 54  | Allan Shaw Building, after 1897, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 91 | Bank of Africa, c1900, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 107 | Begley Bros, 1895, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 82*, 83 | Bellvue Seminary, n.d., KwaNojoli (Somerset East), Eastern Cape. pp 215 | Britannia Arcade, 1902, East London, Eastern Cape. pp 25, 220, 223 | British Kaffrarian Savings Bank, 1908, Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape. pp 227  | Caledon Baths - Sanatorium - Hotel, pre-1905, Caledon, Western Cape. pp 148*, 149  | Carl Herrmann Building, 1904, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 58 | Christelike Jongelingen-Vereniging : Hofmeyrsaal, 1874, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. pp 136 ill, 139  | Chubb and Maxwell Building, 1903, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 100 ill, 101 | City Hall, 1906-1910, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 250 ill, 251, 252  | Coetzenburg, refurbishment, c1833 : 1893/1903, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. pp 134 ill, 135, 167  | Collegiate School for Girls, 1900, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 197  | Colonade Building, 1895, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 61  | Company Gardens, Hothouse, c1848, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 23  | Conservatory - Botanical Gardens, n.d., Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape. pp 23  | Court House - now Local History Museum, 1865, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 237 | Court House and Post Office (now the Tatham Art Gallery), 1864, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 238 | CP Nel Museum, previously Boys' High School, 1905-1907, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 161, 163* | CW Ritter Building, 1900, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 91 | Delponte Building, 1890s : 1896, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 83  | Dockyard Church - Second, St George's Dockyard Church, 1820-1824 : 1898, Simonstown, Western Cape. pp 77 [WO Jones, 1824 not 1864], 91  | Driscoll's Corner, 1894, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 83-84 | Durban Club, 1902, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 38, 233, 235, 236, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245  | Electricity Power Station, pre-1910, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 244 | Empire Hotel, 1894, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 84 | Exploration Building, 1897, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 27, 39, 321, 322 ill | Farmhouse and Barn for Nellmapius, c1889/99, Doornkloof, Irene, Gauteng. pp 301 | Feathermarket Hall, 1885 : 1908 : 1993, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 181  | Flat Iron Building – Thomson Watson Building, 1901, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 55, 68, 69 ill., 109 | Fort England, including East Barracks - Later Lunatic Asylum, then Mental Hospital, 1815 : 1825 : 1894, Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape. pp 211-212  | Fort Klapperkop, 1896, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281  | Fort Schanskop, 1896, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281  | Fort Wonderboom, 1896, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281  | General Post Office, 1900, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 189  | General Post Office, 1897 : 1905, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 323, 324 ill,  | Goodwood Grandstand, 1905, Goodwood, Western Cape. pp 107 | Government Building - Compol Police Museum, c1890, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 278 ill  | Grey Hospital, 1859, Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape. pp 225 | Grey Institute, 1856, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 180, 192 | Grey University College and School - now Grey College, 1906, Bloemfontein, Free State. pp 367 ill, 369  | Guardian Assurance Company Building, 1901-1902, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 88 | Gymnasium, 1858, Paarl, Western Cape. pp 141  | Harbour Board Offices, 1900, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 79 | Harbour Board Offices, 1905, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 38, 193, 194 ill, 195  | House C Foster - Fosters Villa, 1896, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 117 | House CL Andersson: Dolobran, 1905-1906, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 329, 331  | House De Witt - Montana Vista, c1898, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 115 | House FH Rees, 1907, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 195-197 | House Fred Ayres, 1895, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 117 | House G Alexander, 1892, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 58  | House G Olivier: The Towers, 1902, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 156 ill  | House Galpin: Tower house, (now the Observatory Museum), 1850 : 1982, Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape. pp 103-104 ill  | House George Heys, Melrose House, 1887, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281, 296 ill, 297  | House J Holberg, n.d., Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 121 | House J Loopuyt, 1904, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 116 ill, 117 | House JA Foster: Foster's Folly, 1902, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 155, 157 ill  | House Lind - Gottland House, 1902, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 155, 158 ill, 159  | House P Bosman, 1896, Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 117 | House Parker - The Firs - Irma Stern Museum, n.d. : 1898, Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 123  | House PH Marais, Highbury, 1895, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 117 & 121 | House R Hunter - Hunters Villa, 1896, Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 117 | House Sir George Grey - Zorgvliet, n.d., Oranjezicht, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 28, 30, 41, 167  | House Storm - Senn Hütte, 1904, Kalk Bay, Western Cape. pp 121 | House WJ Wills, 1905, Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), Eastern Cape. pp 195 | Huguenot Memorial Building, 1900 - 1903, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 107  | International Hotel, 1884 : 1896 : 1899 : 1902, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 84  | Iziko South African Museum, 1893, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 80 ill  | JW Jagger and Co Building and Warehouse, 1892 : 1895, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 82 ill, 83  | Kamp's Café, pre-1903, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 58 | Kimberley Girls' High School, 1905 : 1913, Kimberley, Northern Cape. pp 388 | King Edward's Mansions, now King Edward Hotel, c1904, Donkin Reserve, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 196 ill, 197 | Koch and Dixie building, 1891 : 1895 : 1899, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 83 | Kraaifontein Hotel, n.d., Kraaifontein, Western Cape. pp 139, 141 | Law Courts, now Supreme Court, 1906, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 112-113 | Le Roux Townhouse, 1909-1910, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 155, 156  | Lennon Ltd, now Gardens Pharmacy, c1896 : 1897, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 63 | Lennon's Building, rebuilt, 1885/6 : 1895, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 20, 21, 56*, 57, 63, 83 | Lennon's Corner, 1895, Beaufort West, Western Cape. pp 169-170 | Markham's Building, 1896, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 350 | Marks Building, 1903-5, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 93, 94 ill | McDonald & Vardy Building, 1880s, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 185  | Memorial Road Synagogue, 1901, Kimberley, Northern Cape. pp 392 | Metropolitan Methodist Church, 1876, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 52, 53, 90, 149  | Municipal Baths Long Street : Turkish Baths, 1908 : 1926, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 107  | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus, 1857 - 1864, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 40 ill, 41  | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, 1904, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 353  | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - Moederkerk, 1863, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. pp 137, 138 ill | Netherlands Bank - Second, 1896, Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 292-293  | Northwards, 1904 : 1912, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 330 ill  | Opera House, 1894, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 57, 82 ill | Opera House, 1903, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 295, 301-302  | Palace Building, 1889, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 303, 304 ill, 317, 318 ill  | Palmerston Hotel - Regent's Palace - Hotel Louis Botha, 1890; 1904, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 58  | Parker's Buildings, 1903, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 107 | Pinehurst - House Edmeades, 1911, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 159  | Post Office, 1891, Bloemfontein, Free State. pp 367 (ill)  | Post Office - First, 1887, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 318 ill, 323 | President Kruger's house, 1883, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 284-185 | Prince Alfred's Guard Drill Hall, 1882, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 185, 187 ill, 188 ill, 189 ill  | Public Convenience, Chalet, 1895, Company Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 132  | Raadsaal, 1889, Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 4, 273, 275 ill, 276-279, 290  | Railway Station Building, 1884, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape. pp 215  | Rand Club - Third, 1902-1904 : 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 337 ill, 339, 343, 347  | Rotunda and Concert Hall Pavilion, 1902, Camps Bay, Western Cape. pp 99 | Royal South Western Fever Hospital, c1899/1900, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 164 | Rust-en-Vreugd, 1777 : c1970, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 130-131  | SA News Building - Nasionale Pers, 1904 : 1937, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 109 | School, nd, Clanwilliam, Western Cape. pp 397 | Selwyn House, 1883, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 185  | Settlers' Memorial Tower, c1905, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 197 | Sir George Grey School, later Grey College, 1856, Bloemfontein, Free State. pp 369  | Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 1900, Simonstown, Western Cape. pp 77  | St George's House, 1904, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 104 ill, 105 | St John's Church, 1884, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 131 | St Mark's Anglican Cathedral, 1850, George, Western Cape. pp 45 | St Mary's Cathedral, 1840-51 : 1864 : 1951, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 41-43, 42 ill, 48, 58  | Staatsmodel School, 1897, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281  | Standard Bank, 1902-1904, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. pp 160 ill, 161  | State Bank and Mint, 1892-1893, Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 290  | Stellenberg Gates, n.d., Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 121 | Telephone Exchange, 1904, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. pp 244 | Theological Seminary - Kweekskool, c1900, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. pp 136 ill, 137  | Town Hall, c1884, Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 108 | Town Hall, 1899, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 109 | Town Hall - City Hall, 1897-1899, East London, Eastern Cape. pp 220 ill  | Town Hall - now Rondebosch library, 1899, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 109 | Town Hall and Market Buildings, 1905, Cathcart, Eastern Cape. pp 222 | Victoria College - Old Main Building - Ou Hoofgebou, 1886, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. pp 134 ill, 135  | Victoria Cottage Hospital, 1889 : 1892 : 1917 : 1931 : 1961 : 1972 : 2013, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 101 | Victoria Memorial Home, 1902, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape. pp 193  | Volkshospitaal, 1890, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng. pp 281  | Volunteer Drill Hall, 1884 : 1888-1889, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 21 | Wellington Fruit Growers building, 1902 : 1934, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 94, 95 ill  | Westminster Estate Buildings: The Big House, 1904, Tweespruit, Free State. pp 377  | White House Hotel / Strand Apartments, n.d.: 1891: 1893 : 1900 : 1911 : 1927, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 68 | White, Ryan and Co – Eastern Province Bldg Soc Building, 1898, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 61  | YWCA, Long St, 1886, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 63 |
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