Steytlerville historic buildings and monuments

Steytlerville historic buildings and monuments

Description

Steytlerville has a number of historic buildings, churches and monuments in addition to the main listings from the town on this website.

These main listings can be found on the following links:
Steytlerville to Willowmore cement road
Steytlerville Museum and Open Air Museum
Steytlerville Family Crests
Lady De Waal Bridge
The Valley of Flags
Steytlerville Pegasus Early Motoring Museum

Other interesting places include:

Steytlerville Dutch Reformed Church
In 1875 a farm with the name Doorspoort was purchased by the Dutch Reformed Church to provide spiritual guidance to the farmers in the area. The town was established a year later.  The town was named after Reverend Abraham Isaac Steytler, who was a minister of the church around 1909. The original Dutch Reformed Church in Steytlerville was built in 1876 and started with 300 members. The building was later replaced with a large neo-Gothic style church on the site of the original town square. The Dutch Reformed Church is the record-holding biggest Edwardian-style church in Southern Africa, seating 1200 members. The church was inaugurated in 1907 and features an organ consisting of 1046 pipes.

St Paul’s Anglican Church, Steytlerville
The site for St Paul’s Anglican Church was given by W Buckley, a builder in Steytlerville and consecrated by Bishop Charles Cornish on 4th July 1900.

Steytlerville Methodist Church
The Methodist Church, built in 1886, took five years to complete. It was built following a dispute between one of the town’s founding fathers, John Hayward, and Rev Charles Murray Regarding the Christening of Hayward’s son. The Dutch Reformed Church reverend refuse to christen Hayward’s eldest son without interviewing his mother, who had stayed at home with a baby since it was too cold to go out. Hayward stormed out saying “In that case I will build my own church”.

Steytlerville War Memorial
The Steytlerville War Memorial stands in the middle of the road on the corner of Middelton and Piet Retief Streets. The monument was built in 1925 and pays homage to the Steytlervillers who died in the First World War between 1914 and 1918. The names of those who perished in the Second World War were added to the monument and altogether eleven Steylervillers are inscribed on the memorial, having paid the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country. The names are CR Buckley, J Erasmus, N Gaisford, J Kunneke, A Pettit, J Ring, J de Wit, PF Ferreira, H Hooper, JY Nash and P Renison.

Heroes Monument – Steytlerville
The Heroes Monument honours those who died fighting for freedom during the apartheid years. Among those honoured are Mzwandile Veneress “Shakes” Miggels; Johannes “Pappie” Witbooi; “Thami” Khasibe.

Contact Info

  • Steytlerville