Report.

Correspondence, faculties, dispensations, information kit and plans. Also the following:

1829 Ordinance No. 4 (local) for authorising a sum of money to be raised in shares for erecting an English Church in Cape Town.

1811 Grant of land and sketch signed by C. Bell for a School of Industry.

1890 Cathedral Statutes.

Manuscript notes on altarpiece.

1915 Report of the Commission appointed by Chapter to consider the Memorial Book.

1932 Installation of Very Rev. J.C.H. Brooke.

1937 The Cathedral Church of St. George: Notes on the history and fabric.

1938 Statement of accounts.

1939 Cathedral Finance Commission.

Rotes on the shields of arms in the stallwork.

On memorials: Notes.

1989 Notes on the fabric.

1955 Notes on the bells.

1960 Notes on the Cathedral by C.T. Wood.

1967 Report on certain problems of site development.

1971 Report on site development.

1976 Archdiaconal inspection of buildings.

1977 Press article in The Argus on completing the Cathedral.

Petitions for faculties, copies of the Parish Record and correspondence with the rector. Includes the following:

1832 Grant of land for erection of a chapel at Rondebosch, with a diagram.

1841 List of pew rents.

1845 List of sittings.

1854 Appeal for funds.

1854 Petition to have the glebe land converted from quit rent wn freehold.

1913 Report by the registrar on St. Paul's burial ground.

1934 St. Paul's Centenary 1834 - 1934.

The first part of the collection of the records of the Archbishop of Cape Town was transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand Library in 1974 to be added to the central Record Library of the C.P.S.A. which, since 1937, had been in the care of the University Library. It was described in 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town', No. 6 in the Library's series of Historical and Literary Inventories of Collections,.

This present inventory, 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town Part II', describes records transferred to the Library in instalments from 1980 to 1990 from Bishopscourt, the home of the Archbishop of Cape Town, by Mrs. A.R. 14o-tee. Provincial Archivist. The records in Part II relate, in general, to the years 1940 to 1982, later period then those in Part I but there is some overlap, there being several items from as far back as 1840.

It in a large collection in 288 pamphlet boxes and follows the alphabetical arrangement by subject used at Bishopscourt. A condensed description of each subject file is given in the inventory together with an index of personal names, churches, parishes and selected subject fields. For the benefit of researchers a list of the names of bishops in each diocese, from the origin of the diocese to date, has been provided together with a map showing the dioceses or the C.P.S.A. in existence in 1991.

The records relate to the whole of the C.P.S.A. but there is a heavy preponderance of Cape documentation because of the Archbishop's residing in Cape Town and his dual role as head of The Diocese of Cape Town as well as being Metropolitan, for the Province. They include the Archbishop's correspondence with bishops of the various dioceses and with individual members of the clergy. Not only do the records show the inspiration of the C.P.S.A. and its work, particularly in the fields education, health and social services, but they also reflect the Church's attitude to social and political problems in South Africa,.

There is much about the Church's confrontation with the State over the issue of apartheid, notably the effects of the Group Areas Act on black churches in white areas and the admission or all races to church schools. Other topics are conscientious objection and the refusal of young Anglicans, both lay and clerical, to serve in the South African Defence Force and the question of Namibia's independence and the expulsion of Bishops Mize and Winter for promoting it.

Correspondence, faculties, brief history of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Simonstown. Includes copies of the agreement, 14 November 1848, signed by Admiral J.N. Dacres whereby land was given an a site for a school for the poor in Simonstown and of a document and plan signed by Admiral Sir F.W. Gray, 22 November 1859, also relating to the School. In addition extra manuscript from a book on Mary Kingsley and photograph of her funeral at sea off Cape Town in 1900. (Photo Stored seperately from collection).

Correspondence with clergy and the following:

1849 Copy or extract from a report by George Mackinnon, Colonel Commanding and Chief Commissioner in Kaffraria to Sir. H. Smith on education.

1912 Letter of excommunication.

1937 Leaflet on St. Matthew's College.

1952 Notice prohibiting J.A. Calata from attending a gathering, including letter from D.F. Malan.

1959 Tribute to Bishop A.H. Cullen, 1931 - 1959. Proposed transfer of church hostels to Department of Education.

1962 Commission on the division of the diocese.

1970 Fath in action: Gordon Tindell, Bishop.

1971 Order of service for dedication of Christ Church, Grahamstown.

1977 Ad clerum.

1979 President charge to synod.

1950 Christian consultation on resettlement in the Ciskei.

Correspondence re Mowbray becoming a parochial district, 1850-1854, the conditions of endowment and the new church at Mowbray. Correspondents are Rev. H. Badnall, Bishop R. Gray and J.W. van Rees Hoets. Memorandum on the Oath of canonical obedience, legal opinion and correspondence on the relationship between St. Peter's and the CPSA.

Correspondence with the rector and memoranda including the following:

circa 1850 Proposal for a new church Cape Town.

1911 Petition for additional altar.

1916 Petition for extension of the church onto the cemetery.

1934 Closing of the school.

1936 Report of the Commission to enquire into the present position of St. John's Parish.

1948 Centenary of the parish of St. John the Evangelist 1848 - 1948. By R.E. Tattersall.

1962 Operation boomerang: financial appeal.

1970 Sale of the church and revocation of consecration.

Correspondence between the Archbishop of Cape Town. Clergy and churchwardens of Holy Trinity re the differences between the CPSA and the Church of England in South Africa. Includes the following:

1850 Draft copy of memorandum re notarial deed, signed by J.C. Davidson.

1858 Plan of Trinity Church.

1983 Resolution on the Third Proviso passed at annual vestry meeting.

1883 Address to Archbishop of Canterbury and Council of Colonial Bishoprics Fund in the attempt to deprive the Bishop of the endowment of his see.

1894 Correspondence between Archbishop W.M. Carter and Archdeacon Lightfoot.

1905 Correspondence re the proposed extension of Holy Trinity.

1909 Oath of canonical obedience by John Edward Beverley, rector, correspondence re Third Proviso and legal opinion In re Trinity Church Trust.

1921 Letter from D. Tennant, Provincial Registrar, re boundaries of church.

1925-1928 Correspondence re the arrival of the Rev. Edgar Waddington and of clergy having to sign the Consultation and Cannons of CPSA.

1929 Correspondence: with A. Patton Le Feuvre concerning the Archbishop refusal to allow him to work at Holy Trinity.

Examples of forms of service for different occasions.