Buildings

The Priory buildings (chapel on the left) with Platkop in the background.

The Priory Chapel was built in 1872, with enlargements in 1896 and 1903. The Chapel was designed by Arthur Byrd, a brother of the SSA, who had worked in an architects' firm in England before going to South Africa.

Undated.

SSM Photos, Box 4

Priory buildings with a robed man standing at the top of some steps leading to the buildings.

A view up to the Priory buildings with an unidentified SSM member standing at the top of the steps.

Undated.

SSM Photos, Box 4

Wooden lychgate with a view of a granite peak in the background

A view through the lychgate on the northeast side of the Priory Chapel with Spitzkop in the background.

Undated.

SSM Photos, Box 4

Priory buildings with shrubs and established planting in the foreground

Looking towards the Priory buildings. The Vestry, the small building between the Priory Chapel and Priory House was built in 1896 in memory of Fr Douglas, one of the first members of the Brotherhood of St Augustine.

Undated.

SSM Photos, Box 7

Small chapel building in the middle distance partially obscured by shrubs and planting in the foreground

A view from the stoep (verandah) of the Priory House. The buidling obscured by the shrubbery was known as St Joseph's Winter Chapel and has been a chapel, a library, and a dwelling.

Undated.

SSM Photos, Box 7

A large parish church under construction

All Saints' parish church under construction. The church was built on the mission to serve the growing local population. It was designed in an "art deco" style. (There are photos of the interior in Worship and Liturgy.)

Undated (probably 1934–5).

SSM Photos, Box 7

Priory church interior, looking down the nave to the altar

The interior of the Priory Chapel, facing east.

Undated (early- to mid-20th century).

SSM Photos, Box 7

High altar with frontal and candles and light streaming through the window behind it

The high altar of the Priory Chapel with festal decorations.

December 1910 (caption on back reads "The Altar - S. Augustine MPT - Xmas 1910")

SSM Photos, Box 7

Local congregants outside gathering in front of the church's west end

The west exterior of All Saints', either before or after a service while congregants milled around outside.

Undated (possibly 1960s).

SSM Photos, Box 7

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Sanctuary and high altar of an unidentified church.

Churches were also built for outstations, often in remote areas and far away from the main base of Modderpoort. They all followed the layout for the SSM's liturgical style.

The altar is ad orientem, and a tabernacle for the reserved sacrament to the side.

Undated (likely mid-20th century).

SSM Photos, Box 17

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