Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3125AB2
    Site Name
    Reformed Church, Meintjies Street, Middelburg
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 11:24
    Archaeology Recordings
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    Inventory Reference
    Recording date
    Primary?
    Yes
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -31.496137, 25.005763
      KML File
      Erf285&286.kml (7.16 KB)
      Eastern Cape
      • Chris Hani
      • Inxuba Yethemba
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 285; Meintjies Street Middelburg
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This neo-Gothic church building was erected in the years 1861 to 1862, soon after the Reformed Church was established in 1859. It is the oldest Reformed Church building in the Cape Province.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The property with the historic Reformed Church building thereon, being -
      (1) Certain piece of land situate in the Division of Colesberg, now Middelburg, in the Village of Middelburg, being part of the dry erf numbered 3 in Block 1 (now known as Erf 285, Middelburg) and measuring 5 square roods 99 square feet.
      (2) Certain piece of land, being the dry erf numbered 2 in Block 1 (now known as Erf 285), situate in the Village of Middelburg, in the Division of Colesberg, now Middelburg, and measuring 35 square roods.
      (3) Certain piece of land situate in the Division of Colesberg, now Middelburg, in the Village of Middelburg, being part of the dry erf numbered 1 in Block 1 (now known as Erf 286, Middelburg) and measuring 5 square roods 120 square feet.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      6363
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      568
      Archive Status
      National monument
      6363-568.pdf (12.63 KB)
      6363-568a.pdf (98.76 KB)
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