Western Cape, CAPE TOWN, City Bowl, Adderley street, NG Kerk, De Groote Kerk, memorials
Church information:-
On 16th December 1677, Commander Johan Bax and his Council set aside a suitable area in the Company’s garden as a burial ground. This was the land on which the Groote Kerk now stands. In 1699 plans for the new church were drawn up and a contract was concluded for the building.
While the church was being built, the graveyard, (Church Square today) which had become “a scandalous spectacle”, was restored and Abraham Hartog contracted to build a wall round it. Inside the church provision was made for about 180 numbered vaults and some unnumbered graves. There were six graves on either side of the pulpit, and in front of it the vaults were apparently arranged in rows, fifteen in a row, up to the organ. Some of the vaults could hold, from six to nine bodies. The vaults could be purchased or hired, and nearly all people of standing of those times were buried here.
(Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/groote-kerk-adderley-street-cape-town)
Photos were taken of all the headstones outside the church. No photos are allowed to be taken inside the church.
According to a booklet issued by the church 'Die Groote Kerk Kaapstad' some of the people buried inside the church are:
Governor Johan BAX -1678
Governor Louis VAN ASSENBURGH -1711
Governor Simon VAN DER STEL -1712
Governor Maurits Pasques DE CHAVONNES -1724
Governor Pieter Gysbert NOODT 1729
Governor Adriaan VAN KERVEL 1737
Governor Ryk TULBAGH 1771
Governor Pieter VAN REEDE VAN OUDSTHOORN -1773
William WAKE -1751
Die grafstene buite die kerk is waarskynlik verskuif/gered uit die Somerset begraafplaas wat omtrent 1921 gesluit en gesloop is. Sommige van die stene is verskuif na Maitland begraafplaas wat in 1886 geopen is. Vir meer inligting daaroor, lees die Hollandse artikel by https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_nee003192101_01/_nee003192101_01_0290.php)
eGGSA captions by: Alta Griffiths, Peter & Beverley Moss
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the location of the cemetery
Cemetery ID: 3006
Information submitted by: Alta Griffiths
Google Earth Project Information:-
GPSID: 3602
GPS: -33 55.489, 18 25.252
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Date: 14 May 2007
Contributed by: eGGSA
Size: 7 items
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