All Saints Church,

Uniondale, Western Cape Uniondale is a small town in the Little Karoo in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The town was formed in 1856 by the joining of two towns, Hopedale and Lyons.Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

church designed by

Sophy Gray Sophy Gray or Sophia Gray (5 January 1814 – 27 April 1871), was a Diocese, diocesan administrator, artist, architect, Equestrianism, horsewoman and the wife of Cape Town bishop Robert Gray (bishop of Cape Town), Robert Gray. Born at Easingto ...

, wife of Robert Gray, the first bishop of Cape Town. __NOTOC__ The

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

was built in 1869 and is located at 33 Voortrekker Street, Uniondale and is a listed heritage site. The church is typical of Gray's design: the characteristic steeply sloping roof (more than 55°), the diagonal buttresses, the three narrow lancet windows in the eastern wall and the nave is twice the width of the chancel. The thatched roof is supported on 12 scissor trusses.

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{{coord, -33.656085, 23.128385, format=dms, display=title 19th-century Anglican church buildings in South Africa Garden Route District Municipality Karoo 1869 establishments in South Africa Churches completed in 1869