Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3325DC68
    Site Name
    Campanile, Strand Street, Gqeberha
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Archaeology Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Site Recording Admin Comments
    Bibliography archive: Cumming-George, L Architecture in South Africa, Volume One, 1933, pg 138-9
    Primary?
    Yes
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.960912, 25.625038
      Eastern Cape
      • Nelson Mandela Bay
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      Modelled on a Venetian campanile, this tower was built to commemorate the arrival of the 1820 Settlers.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The so-called Campanile, situate on a certain piece of unregistered Municipal land in the City of Port Elizabeth, now described as Erf 4457, Port Elizabeth Central, situate in the Municipality and Administrative District of Port Elizabeth, Province of the Cape of Good Hope, in extent 49 (forty-nine) sqaure metres, as detailed by the figure A B C D on survey diagram SG 7092-87, dated 28 March 1988, filed in the office of the Surveyor-General in Cape Town and on file 3/K/PORT E/23 in the office of the National Monuments Council in Cape Town.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      11862
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      929
      Archive Status
      National monument
      Media
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