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Lexicon Shingles _____________________________________________________ A rectangular cleft timber roof tile, wedge-shaped in profile, made of various wood types, being oak, cedar or teak , in South Africa, all imported. Lewcocok notes that the materials used varied from Teak (for Newlands House imported from Mauritius) as well as being imported from India and Burma (the roofing of the Lutheran Church c.1818, Cape Town), American cedar (St George's Church 1825, Grahamstown used American Redwood) and oak (Lewcock 1963:95; 385). Although Yellowwood had been considered for use at St John's Anglican Church in Bathurst, but the idea quickly abandoned, as it was unsuited for the purpose (Lewcock 1963:271, 385 side-notes). It appears that on the Eastern Frontier coral tree shingles for the fortified frontier farmhouses was recommended by Alexander, although the extent too which these were used is not know (Lewcock 1963:385).