Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3326AD4
    Site Name
    Farmerfield Methodist Church, Albany District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 09:46
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      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
      Grading
      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.

      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)
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