Clock towers
I haven't done a Random ... post for ages and these two church towers have cropped up, ideal for a Random Church Towers post. Roberston Dutch Reformed Church tower Montagu Dutch Reformed Church tower
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10/04/2013
Montagu Museum
Montagu op Route 62 in the Klein Karoo het twee fantastiese museum wat besoekers aan die dorp by kan gaan inloer. Die Montagu Museum is geleë in die ou Sendingkerk wat in 1907 gebou is en konsentreer op die dorp se kultuur-historiese skatte. Die museum het verskeie uitstallings met die kerk se preekstoel and ander kerk items wat sentraal hieraan is. 'n Belangrike deel van die museum is die medisinale plantnavorsing wat hier plaasvind en ook uitgestal word. Agter die museum…
22/01/2013
Montagu Church
The Dutch Reformed Church in Montagu is one of the towns most prominent buildings and was built in 1862. A very interesting fact that few people in the town probably know is that the church was originally painted white but after various complaints that the sun reflecting off it was blinding people too much it was painted creamy yellow. I wanted to try something else with the picture and applied a HDR effect to it. What do you think?
15/01/2013
Montagu Church roses
Whenever I find a beautiful historic building I like to take at least two kinds of photos. One straight on to show the building itself and a second one with something in the foreground so that the building forms the background of the picture. I would have preferred the white roses in front of the Montagu Dutch Reformed Church in the Western Cape to have been red as was the case with the Old Mission Church in Montagu, but I'm not complaining.
11/01/2013
St Peter’s Ruin windows
South End in Port Elizabeth is similar to District 6 in Cape Town where the original inhabitants where removed because of the Group Area's Act of the 1960's. St Peter's Anglican Church was built in 1877 and the school next to it was the first church school in South End to produce pupils to standard six (grade 8), the highest standard for coloured people at the time. The church was deconsecrated in 1972 and most of it demolished to stop the congregation from returning…
10/09/2012
St Peter’s Church ruin
Wild grasses around the St Peter's Church Ruin in South End, Port Elizabeth
19/07/2012
Daar’s ‘n hoender wat ‘n eier nie kan lê
Daar's 'n hoender wat 'n eier nie kan lê,daar's 'n hoender wat 'n eier nie kan lê, daar's 'n hoender wat 'n eier nie kan lê,dis die haan wat op die kerk se toring staan. Wanneer ek reis en deur 'n klein dorpie ry soek ek altyd na historiese geboue en interessante plekke om te besoek en 'n foto van te neem. Die eerste ding wat ek doen wanneer ek 'n ou kerk teëkom is om op te kyk na die…
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08/07/2012
Montagu NG Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church)
The little town of Montagu in the Western Cape truly is a gem of a town with beautiful old buildings, lots of history, fruit, mountains and nature all around. Montagu was founded in 1851 on the farm Uitvlucht. The town was named after John Montagu, the British Secretary of the Cape, who was responsible for the building of the Cogmans Kloof Pass that opened up the town for passing trade. One of the most significant buildings in the town is the…
16/01/2012
Church rose
Roses outside the Montagu Museum housed in the old Mission Church built in 1907
12/01/2012
The Pink Church
What would be one of the most unusual sights you can imagine finding in a little plattelandse (rural) town in the Karoo? Well, I bet you didn't just think a pink church, but after saying it it would probably be on your list. Driving into the Karoo town of Hofmeyr, one immediately sees the bell tower and clock towering out above the surrounding town and its difficult not changing direction to check it out.The Hofmeyr Dutch Reformed Church was built in…
10/11/2010