Title
Historic Grahamstown
Caption
The Anglican Cathedral Church, built in Early English Gothic, the 13th Century architectural style revived during Queen Victoria's reign, is seen in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, South Africa on Tuesday November 9, 2004. The building was started in 1824 and finally completed 128 years later in 1952. The earliest development towards a church came from a connection of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel with the British Secretary of State for War and the then Governor of the Cape, Lord Charles Somerset. The name 'Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George' marks the healing of the breach in the Grahamstown diocese begun when the dean excluded the Bishop from St. George's Church and the congregation split between St. George's Church and St. Michael's Pro-Cathedral, where the 4th Bishop Alan Webb, set up his throne. The breach was healed in 1885 after the death of the Dean when St. Michael's congregation moved, with Bishop Webb, back to St. George's. The first St. George's opened in 1830, a single roomed church considered large for a small frontier town. (Photo by Christine Nesbitt)
Credit line
Photo12/Africa Media Online
Reference
APN09A03_241
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