The church of 1915 and its rooster

The Dutch Reformed church on Main Street, with the clock tower you see across the vineyards, replaced the old church in 1915.

Its cornerstone was laid on 30 October 1915 by Ds. Pieter de Waal. The building was designed by the architect Folkert Wilko Hess and built by Huggett at a total cost of £5,976.

The congregation raised the money in very local ways: concerts, rummage sales and flower exhibitions, a low-interest loan from Evert Laubscher, letters of appeal, and fundraising trips by Ds. de Waal to neighbouring congregations.

Look up at the tower: the original clock and bells are still there, topped by a rooster weathervane. The remains of an older cemetery lie on the western side. After 1915, burials moved to a new cemetery at the corner of Piet Retief and Park Street, just along the road from Huis Agt.