9/2/066/0012 | SAHRIS

Overview

Identifiers

Inventory Number

3018AB1

Site Name

Methodist Church and Manse, Leliefontein, Namaqualand District

Site Category

Structures » Building

Record Administration

Author

sahrisprojectmanager

Post date

Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:18

Last modified

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43

Archaeology

Archaeology Recordings

Submitted by siyasanga.mhlekude on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 12:32.

Identifiers

Inventory Reference

9/2/066/0012

Recording date

05/03/2014

Primary?

Yes

Structures

Built Environment Recordings

Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.

Identifiers

Inventory Reference

9/2/066/0012

Primary?

Yes

Classifications

Building type

Parsonage, Church

Associated People

History of use

Location

Mapping

-30.314706, 18.084271

Northern Cape

Namakwa
Kamiesberg

Land Parcel Details

Type of land parcel

Street Address

Land Parcel Reference

Leliefontein

Gradings

Grading

Autoid

Grading - 248932

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 church was erected in 1855. It was the third church to be built at the Leliefontein mission station, which was founded by Barnabas Shaw in 1816. The church, in the predominantly neo-Gothic style, and the manse together form an important historic and architectural complex.

Declarations

Declaration

DeclarationName

Declaration - 218928

Declaration Type

Provincial Heritage Site

Declaration Description

The property with the historic Methodist Church and manse thereon, situate on the Leliefontein Communal Reserve at Leliefontein, in the Division of Namaqualand, Province of the Cape of Good Hope, and measuring one morgen, twenty-one thousand two hundred and eighty square feet (1 morgen 21 280 sq. ft). Crown Grant 150/1934, dated 8 November 1934 (Paragraph 1).

Gazette Date

26/05/1978

Gazette Number

6028

Gazette Notice Status

Current

Notice Date

25/05/1978

Notice Number

1073

Archive Status

National monument