My get pushed challenge from Harry Benson @hjbenson - a historic building in your area presented in sepia
This is the old NG Church in Tulbagh. It is at one end of the historic Church Street.
The church is cruciform in plan, with galleries at the west end and one over each of the transepts, but the original stair and floor are missing. The nave has an ordinary mud floor with an open thatch roof of interesting construction in indigenous timber, in sound condition. The walls, 2’ 6” thick are of brick laid in clay mortar and plastered. The original doors and windows remain, but most of the fittings are missing.
It was only about 300 years ago when, after a land grant by the Dutch Colonial Government to a more or less equal number of Dutch and Huguenot settlers to settle the area, was the town of Tulbagh founded. The town developed slowly and over time and in the period many notable examples of Cape Dutch, Victorian and Edwardian houses and other buildings such as Die Oude Drosdy (the original colonial Magistrate's complex) were built in the valley. Many of these lovely buildings were destroyed in an earthquake in 1969 but quite a number did survive the catastrophe. Many notable examples of the Cape Architecture of the time still exist on farms throughout the valley although in some cases they have been altered or repaired and also modernized. The authentic buildings are sadly few. In the famous Church Street however, all the houses in the street were restored to almost original condition after the earthquake.
Church Street is now graced by the largest number of original Cape- Dutch, Edwardian and Victorian National Monuments in one street in South Africa and is a major tourist attraction of the town to the present day. To take a walk down Church Street is akin to walking through a page in history.
I'm from Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa. Tulbagh is a small farming community.
Get Pushed Challenge: I have been doing this challenge on and off...
That´s great looking church, one can tell there´s a lot of history in this place. The sepia is beautiful for this, those white walls look so lovely in this tone
@kwiksilver lol, never thought of it in that way! I shall have to find out more about the canon. If my memory serves me correctly there is a plaque and information board by it.
