Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3318CD87
    Site Name
    Woutersen-Wessels Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point, Cape Town
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Architectural features

    The architecture of this is very interesting and there is reason to believe that it is the work of the well-kown architect, Herman Schutte. Some prominent citizens are buried here, inter alia Adv. ML Wessels, brother of Sir John Wessels, the former Chief
    Bibliography archive: Langham-Carter MS:23 ; Rennie & Goddard Architects "Restoration of the Woutersen-Wessels Vault for the National Monuments Council" April 1991

    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.912125, 18.412626
      Western Cape
      • City of Cape Town
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 1695
      Erf/Farm Portion: Portion of Erf 308
      Wessels Road
      Green Point
      Cape Town
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      HISTORICAL INTEREST_x000D_
      _x000D_
      The architeture is most interesting and there is reason_x000D_
      to believe that it is the work of the well-known architect_x000D_
      Hermann Schutte._x000D_
      Some prominent citizens have been buried there, inter_x000D_
      alia Adv. M.L. Wessels, brother of Sir John Wessels,_x000D_
      former Chief Justice of the Union.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      6664
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      561
      Deeds Number
      T660/1988, dated 7 January 1988
      Diagram Number
      SG7223/79, dated 13 December 1979
      Archive Status
      National monument
      6664-561_0.pdf (102.88 KB)
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