St Mary's Anglican Church

"Small thatched rectangular church with pointed-arch windows and door, corner buttresses, a belfry with small rose window on the west and a rounded apse on the east wall. Two thatched extensions on the south side and a parapetted extension on the north, all in the original Gothic Revival style.Stands on the Braak without enclosure but surrounded by various flower beds."

Religious

"Although the need to provide for the Anglicans in Stellenbosch had been felt since the first British Occupation, due to their small numbers an Anglican congregation was only established in Stellenbosch in 1848 with Rev F Carlyon as first minister. The church was built by the contractor W Martin from Cape Town and inaugurated by Bishop Grey in 1854. The design was derived from a design by Penketh, an English architect. In 1884 the church was enlarged towards the west and the belfry built. In 1898 it was enlarged again by the construction of the rounded apse on the south end (in which the glasswork from the old west wall was reinstalled) and the construction of a small organ room for the new organ which replaced the harmonium. The addition on the nothern side was built a few years later. (Oberholster and Fransen & Cook) For many years the churchyard was surrounded by a picturesque hedge which no longer exists."

See History.