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The Groote Kerk

Dr. van der Merwe, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church, poses in the splendidly carved pulpit of the Groote Kerk in Cape Town.

Published at 11:07 am on Sunday 1 February 2009. Categories: Architecture Cape Town South Africa Tags: , , , , , .
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Any idea where this was carved? I might well err, but I do doubt rather that such accomplished work was possible in the Cape itself. I’d bet this was carved in the Netherlands.

— B T Van Nostrand 6 Feb 2009 6:37 pm

Hello Van Nostrand,

Ek sien nou die blad. Ek kan uitvind waar die kansel gemaak is, maar sover ek weet is dit deur Anton Anreich hier in Kaapstad gemaak.

A Botes

— A Botes 19 Sep 2009 12:30 pm

Mnr Botes is correct: the pulpit was carved in Cape Town by Anton Anreith.

Born 1752 at Reigel am Kaiserstuhl in Germany, he was responsible for most of the best sculpture and architectural carvings in the Cape of his day.

— Andrew Cusack 13 Nov 2018 2:31 pm

Glad to have been both right and wrong. Right in that i thought a man trained in Europe must have made it; wrong to have thought that it must therefore also have been made there.

— B T Van Nostrand 13 Nov 2018 7:04 pm
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