Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3326AD4
Site Name
Farmerfield Methodist Church, Albany District
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:08
Last modified
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 09:46
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Location
Location
Mapping
-33.490609113985, 26.543795643811
Eastern Cape
- Sarah Baartman
- Makana
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Farm
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 211
Albany
Albany
Owner(s)
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
This neo-Gothic Methodist Church was designed by the Rev. Thornley Smith and was erected in 1844. It originally served a community established by the Rev. William Shaw as an experiment in social rehabilitation. The church building is still being used as church and school by local farm labourers and their families.
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
The so-called Farmerfield Methodist Church, together with five metres of surrounding land, situated on certain piece of perpetual quitrent land in the Division of Albany, at the Junction of the Assagaai Bosch and Cariega Rivers (now known as Remainder of the farm Farmerfield 549).
Deed of Transfer 31/1850, datede 6 april 1850 (para. 2)
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
9581
Notice Date
Notice Number
208
Archive Status
National monument
9581-208.pdf (200.19 KB)
Media
Media
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