HERITAGE SERIES: PLACES AND WALKS COMPANY'S GARDEN AND PRECINCT WALK THE COMPANY’S GARDEN This precious parcel of green and shade, hunter-gatherers had inhabited this area in the middle of a busy postcolonial for thousands of years. city, is the remaining half of a garden The Gorinhaiqua and the Gorinchacqua planted in the 1650s by the Dutch (clans of the Khoekhoen) were cattle and East India Company (Verenigde sheep farmers who travelled between Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC). the area now known as Saldanha Bay The garden was superimposed upon and the for hundreds of a landscape occupied occasionally by years before the arrival of the Dutch in hunter-gatherers (San) and modified by the 17th century. They had a distinctive pastoralists (Khoekhoen), who migrated social and economic system based on seasonally for hundreds of years. It led nomadism and the ownership of cattle to the dispossession of the people who and sheep. The size of their social groups had first used this landscape around the A WALK IN THE COMPANY’S GARDEN and cattle ownership was considerable. base of the mountain, the establishment TIME: This guided trail takes you through ’s On 24 November 1655, Jan van of the historic city, the introduction of historic Company’s Garden precinct and can be walked Riebeeck noted in his diary: ‘Near agriculture into the region, and the in three (3) hours or less if short cuts are taken. Add and beyond the Redoubt Duynhoop beginnings of scientific investigation time to visit the museums and other places of interest of [ area] we found the country into the flora of the Cape Floral Kingdom. your choice. everywhere so full of cattle and sheep, as far as the wood [Newlands] where our START POINTS: Start at 1 - the top of BEFORE THE GARDEN people live … that we could hardly get or from – the top end of the Gardens, opposite the 41 The Garden lies in the midst of a along the road.’ Mount Nelson Gateway in Orange Street, where street dramatic landscape, framed by Devil’s parking is easier to find. Follow the numbers to the end ‘Not only were the numbers of cattle Peak to the east and Lion’s Head to the at . See map on page . impossible to be counted, it was just 51 71 west. It is dominated by the globally the same with the people … probably This trail is suitable for wheelchairs. recognised landmark of 5 000 or 6 000, young and old.’ He that rises precipitously to more than a also noted the circular arrangement of thousand metres above sea level. Rain houses: ‘There were also about 400 to falling on Table Mountain filters through 500 houses, rather large and pitched in the upper ramparts of Table Mountain circles close to each other, within which sandstone to emerge as perennial the cattle are kept at night.’ Names the streams in the Table Valley below. Khoekhoen gave to places still remain as These springs were an important factor part of our heritage in many parts of the drawing people to this area since Stone Western Cape. To the Gorinhaiqua, the Age times. Cape Peninsula was known as Camissa or ‘place of sweet water’. They called Table Stone tool artefacts found across the Mountain Hoerikwaggo – ‘mountain valley and close to the coastline provide of the sea’. tangible evidence that Stone Age

2 Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 3 They practised a land management system based on the use of fire to promote good growth of grazing on their seasonal return. remarked in his diary that his interpreter reported that ‘they [the Gorinhaiqua] will again return, when the grass, which they have everywhere burned, shall have sprung out again’. The Gorinhaiqua used the Table Valley area with its sweet streams and good grazing slopes of renosterbos for the grazing of their cattle and sheep. The arrival of occasional ships from the early 16th century in marked the beginning of the end of this traditional form of land use for the Gorinhaiqua. Khoekhoen building houses. P Kolbe, De A Khoekhoen settlement at Cabo de Goede Hoop (c1675) The history of their land dispossession Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1719 and the resultant loss of access to water and grazing preceded the growth and development of the colonial settlement THE GARDEN BEGINS and agriculture. Under the direction of the first commander Jan van Riebeeck and This began with the arrival of the his gardener Hendrick Boom, the Dutch to set up a refreshment station ground for the Company’s Garden for ships travelling around the African was cultivated in the same month coast and the establishment of the as the arrival of the first Company Company’s Garden to provide fresh officials in April 1652. First attempts produce for them. at cultivation were discouraging; the seasons were different from the northern Drawing by German artist Johannes Schumacher 1763, shows the significance of the hemisphere and strong winds wreaked Company's Garden within the settlement of Cape Town and clearly indicates the Dutch havoc on early crops. Slowly, however, grid design. improvements were made. Channels, or gragten, were dug to lead water from the streams. These channels determined the alignment of the original roads and, in turn, the grid pattern and in many cases the layout of the central city of today.

4 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 5 THE SCIENTIFIC AND THE BOTANICAL GARDEN PLEASURE GARDEN When the British returned to the Cape By the mid-18th century, the Garden in 1806, they began using portions of had become famous, firstly for its the Garden for important institutional beauty and delight, and secondly for the buildings. St George’s Cathedral was propagation and export of indigenous built on land first donated in 1827, plants. This had proceeded under the followed by the direction of the gardener built on the menagerie site in 1838. Jan Andries Auge. The Public Library was built close to the Cathedral in 1860. The Houses of Bulbs and plants were exported to an Parliament were built on a large piece increasingly lucrative European market. of Garden land in 1879, followed by The arrival of pelargoniums (or geraniums the South African Museum in 1883. The and their hybrids), and other Cape plants building of the Museum on what was in Europe, date from about this period. regarded as one of the most ornamental However, at the turn of the 18th century parts of the Garden was the ‘final straw’ the was in and resulted in the mass resignation of debt and the Garden was neglected. the Garden Commissioners in 1890. The The British occupied the Cape in Garden was transferred to the municipal 1932 D’Oyly impression of Government Avenue 1795 to forestall any French interest authorities in 1892 and has remained a By the end of the 17th century, the In 1693, Hendrik Oldenland took over as in the strategic sea route to India civic responsibility ever since. and elsewhere. They invested little Garden had expanded up the Table head gardener and added pathways and The public had always supported the money or interest in the Garden, and it Valley. Increasingly, the less fertile land fountains. A menagerie was established idea of a public garden. In 1848, the deteriorated further. It was at this point between the Castle and present-day at the top of the Garden in 1700. lower part of the Garden was turned that Governor Yonge tried to turn the Wale Street was given over to various over to public use. It was called the Garden into his private domain. There public and private developments. These Botanical Garden and at that time was such an outcry that the tradition of included the Slave Lodge, the church (in began to take on many of the public access to the Garden remains to Church Square), a graveyard (now under landscape features it has accumulated this day. Spin and Grave Street), and a hospital to the present day, chiefly the sinuous for ill sailors, which stood at the corner The return of the Garden to the Dutch curving pathways that were imposed on of Adderley and Wale Street opposite Batavian Republic in 1803 marked a the formal Dutch garden grid. the Slave Lodge. Private lands were high point in its fortunes. The central The process of ‘institutional creep’ has granted on either side of the Company’s Government Avenue axis was extended resulted in the loss of half of the green Garden stretching from Hatfield Street to Orange Street where it remains today, space of the Garden. It has also meant to Queen Victoria Street. There was a linked by the impressive Mount Nelson that the Garden became a unique and central axis running through the middle Gateway. Money was made available for special mix of public cultural institutions of the Garden down the settlement the construction of decorative gateways, representing power and authority within to the sea. This became Government called the Lioness Gateway, leading the context of a changing historical Avenue and led into Adderley Street, to the menagerie and the Paddocks. landscape. long regarded as the ‘centre’ of Travellers to the Cape at this time Cape Town. remarked on the beauty of the Garden.

6 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 7 1 IZIKO SLAVE LODGE

The Company’s Garden’s modern layout with its sinuous pathways and central Dutch garden axis

THE MODERN GARDEN Many of the historic trees in the Garden were removed in the 1920s to allow 1910 view down Adderley Street more light into the Garden. The building of the Delville Wood Memorial in the 1920s necessitated a radical redesign of The old Slave Lodge at the top of some 1 000 men, women and children the upper part of the Garden. It now has Adderley Street was built by the Dutch housed in squalid, inhumane and harsh a broad cross axis, which is terminated East India Company (VOC) to house its conditions. It was also used as a hospital, by the South African National Gallery. slaves who were brought from India, prison and lunatic asylum. In 1803, Louis The Company’s Garden has been the Indonesia and Mozambique. The original Michel Thibault, the building inspector, subject of an intensive series of studies building, which was a plain single reported that the Lodge was so dark and public participation, designed storey with only a few street-facing slit inside during the day that he had to use to identify the significant elements, windows, was completed in 1680. All a lantern. the rooms in the Slave Lodge opened patterns and uses, so that they may be Following the British occupation of the onto the central courtyard from where properly maintained and protected. This Cape (1806), the building was altered the daily slave roll call was taken. The has resulted in a Company’s Garden to house the Colonial Offices and the building was continuously in a poor Conservation Management Plan and a Supreme Court. This work was carried condition and in 1751 it was being series of policies aimed at protecting out by the French architect Louis Michel considered for demolition, when it was the Garden’s special qualities but, at Thibault, who was responsible for decided rather to repair it and add a the same time, restoring and renewing the classical façades one sees today. second storey. Today’s building still certain aspects for appropriate use. The entrance was further changed to contains much of this early material. face the top of Adderley Street and a The Lodge, on average, accommodated fine pediment by the sculptor Anton 500 slaves, but at peak times there were Anreith was added to the entrance

8 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 9 ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS on Parliament Street. The renovated The façade was set back, in replica, in 3 building, with its yellowwood ceilings the 1960s for the widening of Adderley DESMOND TUTU ARCH and floors, accommodated over time the Street and the interior was remodelled. Orphan Chamber, Income Tax Collector, The Slave Lodge building is the most Post Office, Public Library, Supreme prominent slave history site at the Cape, Court of the Cape, and Seats/Councils and today many South Africans can trace of Government. their ancestry back to this site.

CLOCK Open daily 09:00–17:00. Closed Sunday, Workers’ Day and Christmas Day. Headphones-alt Audio-guided tours available. phone Tel: +27 (0)21 467 7229.

2 PARLIAMENT LANE

In 2016 the Design Indaba, in The dome-shaped wooden Arch is conjunction with the City of Cape Town, made of carefully bent wood and decided to construct, at the entrance its 14 ribs represent the Chapters of to Government Avenue, a memorial in the SA Constitution. On each beam, honour of Nobel Peace Prize laureate phrases from the SA Constitution have Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. been engraved. The arching elements The construction of the Arch for the represent a globe celebrating Tutu’s role Arch was sponsored by Liberty, and as an international figure for peace. It is the design was conceptualised by the a reminder of South ’s history and Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta the need to uphold the values of the and the Johannesburg-based urban Constitution. design firm, Local Studio. The Arch St George’s Cathedral is Tutu’s spiritual for the Arch was officially unveiled on home, but the space around it is where 7 October 2017 on Tutu’s 86th birthday. many anti-apartheid marches and A private service was held at St George’s campaigns were held during the 1970s Cape Town’s first Post Office operated that was erected in 1890 to mark her Cathedral (see 7 ) in his honour. and 80s, when he was the Archbishop of from a side door of the Slave Lodge 1887 Golden Jubilee. At the entrance The wooden Arch is a public celebration the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town. from 1840. In Parliament’s garden to Parliament Lane is a statue by Ivan of Tutu’s life and legacy, as a moral across the way is a statue of Queen Mitford-Barberton (c1973) of the historic compass for over more than Victoria (by sculptor Sir Thomas Brock) statesman, General . 50 years, and of his enormous impact on South Africans.

10 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 11 ENTRANCE TO THE 4 COMPANY’S GARDEN 5 HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

Cape Town is home to South Africa’s Legislature building in 1987. Each Parliament. The classical architecture year the President gives the State of of this old Cape Legislature building the Nation Address (SONA) from the represents order and dominance – a Houses of Parliament, with the February universal language of governmental opening of Parliament a vibrant and buildings in Europe and the British multicultural event. Colonies. Red brickwork bays alternate 1790 map of the Fort and Town of the Visitors may sit in the public gallery with white pilasters in the colossal order. when Parliament is in session, and Its entrance has a lofty temple-front with there are guided tours of Parliament Cape Town’s earliest main thoroughfare Two freshwater streams were channelled columns headed by Corinthian capitals. during the week. (today’s Adderley Street and into ditches (gragten or slooten) to water The Parliamentary buildings were Government Avenue) connected the the Company’s Garden and to supply User-friends For Parliamentary tours: originally designed by Charles Freeman, VOC’s first Fort (on today’s Grand ships and the Fort with fresh water. By Tel: +27 (0)21 403 2266 or email who was replaced by Henry Greaves Parade) to the Company’s fresh produce 1678, the Garden was extended further [email protected]. after he miscalculated the foundations garden, first tilled in April 1652. By 1665, up to the UCT Hiddingh Campus area. UNIVERSITY in the construction of the building. The For debates of the National cultivated gardens extended on both The part of the Garden below Wale building was completed in 1884 and Assembly and the National Council sides of the thoroughfare from today’s Street, towards the port, was abandoned, opened in 1886. of Provinces (NCOP): Trafalgar Place flower-sellers’ market, up making way for settlement growth. The Tel: +27 (0)21 403 2197/8 or email to the Delville Wood ponds. Company’s Garden northern entrance The National Assembly building was [email protected]. has been at this point since the 1670s. added to the south of the old Cape

12 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 13 6 GOVERNMENT AVENUE 7 ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL

The Company’s Garden has a central The Avenue was originally part of a The Cathedral Church of St George the windows, particularly the great west and walkway, now called Government grid of promenading avenues in an Martyr is the seat of the Anglican Church rose windows, are on a par with other Avenue, which provides a tree-lined enclosed garden. It was extended of Southern Africa. It was to replace the brilliant mid-20th century designs. The pedestrian route into the central city. southwards in 1804 to Orange Street, old 1834 St George’s Church, a classical side chapels include: The Lady, St David’s Water is key to the terminating opposite the Mount Nelson building at the top end of St George’s and St John the Baptist. The earliest part and without a year-round supply of Hotel entrance. The water channels and Street. The slate steps of the original of the Cathedral is The Crypt, which is spring water from the mountain, it would conduits are remnants of a leiwater, church are still visible, and six trees mark now used on occasion as a jazz venue. not have been chosen as a refreshment or irrigation scheme, for the extensive the positions of its columns. The new The area around the entrance to the station followed by settlement. The vegetable and fruit garden of the VOC. Arts and Crafts cathedral was designed Company’s Garden and the Cathedral Avenue, the central feature of the by architects Herbert Baker and Francis CLOCK Open at all times. were the scenes of street battles starting in Company’s Garden from earliest times, Masey. The foundation stone was laid 1972, when protesters demanding equal was flanked with channels and culverts No cycling. in 1901. The original proposal had education were charged by riot police to water the vegetable and fruit garden. Dogs permitted on leads only. included a large bell tower terminating and sought sanctuary in the Cathedral. First planted with citrus trees to help at the St George’s Street vista (on the site Wi-Fi access available. From 1982, during the height and then the prevent scurvy and then later with oak of the old church). A smaller tower was collapse of apartheid, Desmond Tutu was trees, the Avenue extended down the eventually added in 1978. the Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese Heerengracht (now Adderley Street) as The lofty nave and arches of the Cathedral of Cape Town. Archbishop Emeritus Tutu the axis of the simple bastide or fortified are built of Table Mountain sandstone is also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and plan of Cape Town. and the magnificent stained-glass

14 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 15 OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL 8 AND LABYRINTH

is renowned for passionately voicing his CLOCK Open weekdays 08:00–17:00, Opposite Parliament and at the rear of Labyrinth: church’s struggle against apartheid. Saturday 08:00–12:00, the Cathedral are the buildings of the Arrow-right Enter St George’s Cathedral grounds Sunday 07:00, 08:00, 09:30 old St George’s Grammar School, one of The Cathedral is now recognised as a from Queen Victoria Street. and 19:00. the oldest schools in South Africa. The symbol of democracy in South Africa. CLOCK Open Tuesday to Friday User-friends school has now moved to Mowbray. The Its heritage significance lies not just in For tours: 09:00–13:00. L-shaped double-storey building was the Cathedral building, but also in the Tel: +27 (0)21 424 7360 or email built in 1904 and designed by Herbert intangible actions of the clergy against [email protected]. Baker and Francis Masey. It now serves apartheid during the struggle. This led to EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE Bookshop, bric-a-brac shop, as offices for the Anglican Church. this church being known as the People’s and The Crypt for jazz events. Cathedral. Behind the old grammar school (and accessed from Queen Victoria Street), a garden of contemplation was added in 2004 in the form of a labyrinth, which is a replica of the one in Chartres, laid in 1220.

16 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 17 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE COMPANY’S GARDEN: 9 SOUTH AFRICA 10 THE PUBLIC GARDEN

The National Library, in its parkland Library in the Company’s Garden), The Dutch period Company’s Garden drawn by Josephus Jones (c1791) shows the setting, was built between 1854 and donated his outstanding collection of rectangular compartments enclosed by high hedges 1857. It was designed by architect books to form the core of the library, WH Köhler in the Greek Revival style which now holds nearly every document modelled on the Fitzwilliam Museum published about South Africa, as well as in Cambridge (1845). The building has valuable antiquarian collections, maps, an imposing double-storey front with a and a significant vintage collection of projecting Corinthian portico facing the photographs. Company’s Garden. It has a particularly CLOCK Open weekdays 08:00–17:00. fine reading room. Arrow-right Free entry to bona fide users. Sir George Grey, Governor of the Internet access 08:00–17:00. Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861 (see phone his statue at 11 in front of the National Tel: +27 (0)21 424 6320.

The 1842 pump The 1842 stone well

18 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 19 This special area of the Company’s when many old trees were removed, and 11 SIR GEORGE GREY STATUE Garden is called the Public Garden and an enthusiasm for massed colour saw it forms one of the many landscapes annuals bedded out several times a year. attached to the Avenue. The Garden’s Overall, the Public Garden is classic of history is a sequence of places, events, its period. One enters through gates patterns, and plantings. In 1848, it erected in 1911. A diagonal path ahead was transformed from its early Dutch connects to the central path of the Public Sir George Grey was a Governor of agricultural and ornamental period Garden. The sinuous path connects to South Australia, New Zealand and the into an English pleasure garden with the old stone well on the right and the Cape between 1854 and 1861. This botanical specimens and plant sales. 1842 pump, which is still implanted 1864 statue of him stands in front of All trees were labelled with their in the stump of an oak tree. A reliable the National Librar (see 9 ) which he common and scientific names and place source of water was essential to the keenly supported, both in his capacity of origin, as can be seen to date. James Company’s Garden, and the well was as governor at the time and also McGibbon, the head gardener and most built in a sump design with alternate through the donation of his valuable probably the designer, overlaid the rings of brick and slate for the efficient private collection of books and Dutch geometry, bisected by straight percolation of groundwater. See 43 for manuscripts. paths, with a sundial and fountains at more information about the interesting crossings. He brought lawns to the edge history of water. of paths, made picturesque clumps of shrubs, interspersed specimen CLOCK Open daily 07:00–19:00. trees, and put in place a sinuous path No dogs allowed. around the circumference. A subtle but Wi-Fi access available. powerful change came in the 1920s 12 JAPANESE LANTERN

This stone lantern was presented in 1932 by the people of Japan to the people of Cape Town, in appreciation of the hospitality shown to Japanese sailors and passengers calling at the Cape. It was removed during World War II and reinstated when peace was announced.

20 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 21 13 THE BOTHY 14 THE CHALET: PUBLIC LAVATORY

The early 19th century Bothy (an old It is a small building with pointed Gothic Accessible from both Queen Victoria EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE This is the only public toilet in the Scottish word for farm workers’ quarters) windows in the end gables and coloured Street and the Company’s Garden, Company’s Garden. Women enter has had many uses throughout history, French doors onto the garden. The stands a useful and charming small from the Garden side and men from including as a gardener’s quarters, building has been restored on the basis chalet with exuberant roof decorations Queen Victoria Street. curator’s house, seed store, and a of old drawings. and other High Victorian ornamentation, committee room for the National dating from c1895 and probably CLOCK Not open to the public. Library. It was also used for meetings designed by the municipal architect by the Botanical Gardens committee Walter Reid. It was described by in the 1850s. The Bothy appears on an the mayor at the time as ‘a great 1862 map of the Public Garden convenience’. as mapped by WB Snow.

The 1862 map of the Garden as mapped by WB Snow with the Bothy indicated with an arrow

22 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 23 OLD CITY AND CIVIL 15 SERVICE CLUB: 16 AND 18 16 SUPREME COURT: QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 20 - 28 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

Across Queen Victoria Street and opposite the Chalet is the old City and Civil Service Club building. A largely Victorian building, it has three storeys with a slate roof pierced by three gables and two dormers with an ornate eaves-level cornice. At second-floor level there is an enclosed balcony. The building was designed for the City Club (founded in 1878) by Herbert Baker and Francis Masey in 1897. The Civil Service Club (1858) and the City Club merged in 1976 to form the City and Civil Service Club. It is now in private ownership and used for a professional Next door to the old City and Civil (see 32 ). Associated with the functioning consultancy. Service Club is the rear façade of the of the legal system in South Africa and Arrow-right Exit the Company’s Garden Supreme Court – a landmark building. forms part of a grouping of buildings 1895 architect’s perspective through the upper cast iron Its Neo-Classical entrance is in Keerom along Keerom and Queen Victoria Street, – Francis Masey drawing decorative gates on Queen Street. The Cape ‘Paarl Grey’ granite including the High Court Civil Annex. building was a 1907 competition winner Victoria Street. Arrow-right Access from Keerom Street. for architects Hawke and McKinlay, who CLOCK Not open to the public. CLOCK  also designed the Centre for the Book Not open to visitors.

24 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 25 17 HIGH COURT CIVIL ANNEX: 18 HUGUENOT MEMORIAL: 38 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 46 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

A late 19th century landmark building became the Pupil Teachers’ Institute An early 20th century building, 1 to 6 December 1904. Paul Kruger of Saldanha Bay limestone, it has three in 1905. The building later housed the the Huguenot Memorial is in a died of pneumonia on 14 July 1904 storeys in a restrained Neo-Baroque contentious Race Relations Appeals predominantly Edwardian style with in Switzerland and was later buried style and a façade flanked with gabled Board on the second floor during the Cape Revival influences. This landmark in Pretoria. sections. The design is attributed to the apartheid years. building was designed by the architect The Huguenot Memorial is a three-storey Department of Public Works. George Gordon Milne. The High Court Annex now serves as plastered building, except for its The site was interestingly that of the old an extension of the Supreme Court In 1886, the Synod of the Dutch rough stone ground floor, and has Art Gallery. The existing building of 1898 supporting court uses and functions. Reformed Church (DRC) decided to a deep forecourt enclosed by two erect a building in memory of the French forward-projecting wings each with Huguenots who came to the Cape from two wide bays topped by gables. The 1688 to 1689. Its purpose was to serve entrance is set at the end of the forecourt as Synod Hall, committee rooms, and with a pediment at eaves level. All church offices. The foundation stone woodwork is of teak, with the windows was laid on 24 August 1899 by Sir Henry all shuttered. A stately gateway with a de Villiers, Chief Justice of the Cape pediment gives access to the forecourt. Colony, and the building was officially The building is now used for offices by opened on 15 October 1903. The mortal the Department of Social Development remains of President SJP Kruger lay in of the Western Cape Provincial state at the Huguenot Memorial from Government.

26 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 27 OLD LAND AND AGRICULTURAL 19 BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA: 20 HERB AND SUCCULENT GARDEN 52 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

An early to mid-20th century landmark The building was for many years used as Returning to the Company’s Garden, 1650s, the present layout is also planted building, it features Art Deco the Land and Agricultural Bank of South a sinuous path leads from the Japanese with indigenous and European herbs. architectural styling and detailing. Africa. It is now in private ownership. Pergola past the herb garden and Indigenous plants of particular interest rockery of succulent plants. In 1938, the architect Brian George Re-enter the Company’s Garden through are the rose pelargonium from which Mansergh won the Cape Provincial the upper cast iron decorative gates on Herbs were a significant part of the oils are extracted and used in perfumes, Institute of Architects bronze medal Queen Victoria Street. early Dutch garden, and were exported and buchu (Khoi name for any aromatic for the building. to Batavia and Europe. Herbs have plant), which is extremely versatile and historically been an essential part of any used for medicinal purposes and tea. garden being used daily for medicines, The tree aloes (Aloe barberae) in the cooking, preserving food, liqueurs, Garden are the largest and tallest of the perfumes, insect control, freshening South African tree aloes and can grow to clothes, soaps, dyeing cloth, and 17 m. These are naturally found in dense love potions. tall bush and low forest regions along In Victorian times, the herb garden was the east coast of Mozambique. divided into radiating beds with rolled As with many indigenous trees, herbs glazed tiles. In keeping with the first herb and succulents, the tall common garden set out by Hendrick Boom in the cabbage trees in the rockery also have traditional medicinal uses (see 27 ).

28 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 29 21 OLD SAFFRON PEAR TREE 22 RUTHERFOORD FOUNTAIN

Where the space opens up to lawns, This figure of a young woman holding an the ancient saffron pear tree (Pyrus urn and cup was cast by Wills Brothers communis) is on the left. In 1980, major of South London. It is mounted on an surgery was carried out to prolong imported pink granite basin, which, in the life of the tree and some branches turn, rests on a foundation of locally have been braced and bolted with quarried Cape granite. It was erected in cables. A new sapling cloned through recognition of the ‘active and benevolent grafting of bud material is now being life’ of local philanthropist Howson grown to preserve and propagate the Rutherfoord Esq., and relocated here original species. from an overcrowded Adderley Street in 1897. This was appropriate, as in 1848 This old tree is all that remains of what Rutherfoord had been appointed to the was a circle of pear trees in the middle of commission formed to transform and run the Company’s Garden. Despite its age, the neglected Company’s Garden as a every autumn edible fruit is harvested botanic garden. from the tree, and each spring it has a canopy of white blossoms. There are other historic trees nearby (see 27).

Due to its old age and fragility, the saffron pear tree area is enclosed by an iron railing for protection.

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE For further information on other This is the oldest tree in the Company’s trees in the Company’s Garden, refer Garden and it is believed to have to the LIST OF TREES AND WALK come from Holland, in the time of Van on page 66. Riebeeck, with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It is also possibly the oldest cultivated tree in South Africa, being 367 years old. Saffron pears from the Company’s Garden are mentioned by the traveller Valentyn in 1714, while visiting Cape Town.

30 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 31 23 SUNDIAL AREA 24

Cecil Rhodes, a major political figure at the Cape in the late 19th century, envisaged British dominion from the Cape to Cairo. This 1908 bronze statue has him pointing northwards: ‘Your hinterland is there.’ Rhodes had intended his statue to be placed at the top of Adderley Street, but after his part in the failed Jameson Raid, the statue was later quietly repositioned here among the trees. Although Rhodes and his imperialism are today highly questioned, his three lasting gifts to Thomas Bowler c1851 South Africa were the bequest of the Estate, the land forming An important cross axis in the Garden’s In the location of the aviary (see 25 ) the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, design runs from the Rutherfoord facing the sea, one is at the place and the Rhodes scholarships. fountain to the sundial and, across the where, in 1851, Thomas Bowler drew Avenue, to the gate of . In the picture shown. The large trees are Dutch times, this was part of a formal gum myrtles (Angophora costata) and parterre garden, with a grid of paths judging from their size and slow growth, with low-clipped edgings and vegetable it is most likely that these trees were beds. The strict landscape was planted in the Dutch period. Only one, redesigned in 1848, with fluid forms and however, remains and is situated on the lawns laid over the strict geometry of edge of the sundial paved circle. On the the parterre garden (see 10). The sundial right of the picture, Bowler shows one was placed here at that time. of the then newly planted Norfolk Island pines (Araucaria heterophylla) of which one has now grown to an immense height and shades a substantial area of seating beneath it.

32 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 33 COMPANY’S GARDEN 25 ‘SLAVE BELL’, TOWER AND AVIARY 26 RESTAURANT AND PLAY AREA

The Company’s Garden was dependent the closing time of the Garden each The Company’s Garden Restaurant A recreational play area now includes on slavery and many slaves worked the evening, and to warn visitors to depart. opened in 2014 after many years as three oversized weaver nest structures historical agricultural garden to supply This particular bell used to hang in the the old Company’s Garden Tea Room hanging from trees for climbing, a large fresh produce to ships for the prevention old Town House in or Garden’s Restaurant. It was always a swing, and a number of wooden animal of scurvy. The Slave Lodge (see 1 ) is and would be rung to alert all when favourite with locals and often used as . The giant twisted saligna located adjacent for this very reason. there was a fire. a venue for chess games. During the gum tree (Eucalyptus grandis), which Slave bells are a feature of early Cape late apartheid years in the 1980s when previously formed a central element of The 1938 aviary may seem an agriculture and were used on farms to restaurants were still segregated, church the tea room area, blew over in a storm insignificant building, yet the incomplete control and monitor slave labour. ministers from all races, when attending in 2014. The wood from the tree has Greek-cross form, the pyramidal pavilion the annual Synod in Queen Victoria been recycled for the creation of the This ‘slave bell’ and tower, however, roofs (originally probably shingles), Street, could eat together outside at the animal sculptures and the log seating. dates only to 1911 and is a replica in and clean details are all an unique Garden’s Restaurant. The stump of this old tree remains visible design of the one at Elsenburg farm. expression of 1930s architecture. as a memory and part of the tree walk. The bell dated 1855 was used to signal CLOCK Open daily 07:30–18:00. phone Tel: +27 (0)21 423 2919.

34 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 35 27 TREE GROVE 29 DIRECTOR’S HOUSE, VISITORS’ CENTRE AND OLD CANNON

The Tree Grove between the Japanese Lantern (see 12 ) and the Rose and Fynbos/Indigenous Garden (see 31 ) is where most of the older trees of the Garden are found. Visitors may wish to take time out to meander on the side paths to read the tree identification markers, which have the common names, scientific names and, in the case of indigenous trees, South African tree numbers. Also see the LIST OF TREES AND WALK on page 66 for additional information on other trees.

The later 19th century Director’s that the cannon be restored and 28 THORNE FOUNTAIN House was renovated during 2008 and displayed for the benefit, enjoyment, operates, in part, as an Information/ and education of visitors to the Visitors’ Centre on the Company’s Company’s Garden. Garden, and is currently home to the Disused cannons were used in Cape Cape Town Heritage Trust (CTHT). Town as mooring posts in harbours, This Victorian building was formerly This fountain was donated by Sir William as corner protectors, and to designate the house of the curator of the Thorne and erected in 1900 on the site of pedestrian ways. The re-use of this Company’s Garden. an earlier pond. The enchanting boy-and- cannon was most likely as a bollard on dolphin of white Carrara marble It includes a Fynbos Experience a street corner to prevent ox wagons has been eroded by the constant flow of Centre and heritage shop focused on from cutting corners and scattering water over the statue. Koi fish were originally indigenous botanicals. pedestrians. Cannon bollards were still donated by the people of Japan, together common street furniture well into the The City of Cape Town unearthed a with the Japanese Lantern (see ), in 1932. 20th century. 12 large cannon in 2013, when excavating Beyond the fountain, at the south end of an electricity cable trench at 15 Orange The CTHT, together with the Cannon the Tree Grove (see 27 ), and approaching Street close by. It was moved under Association of SA and the Hill Trust the Rose and Fynbos/Indigenous Garden, permit and kept securely in a service CCT ward, facilitated and funded the the path narrows and passes a tree aloe area at the Company’s Garden. There restoration of the cannon and the (Aloidendron barberal), the tallest of the was agreement by all parties concerned construction of its wooden custom-made aloe species and the survivor of a pair planted in the 1880s.

36 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 37 CAPE DUTCH VEGETABLE carriage. Unveiling took place on In addition to defence artillery on land 30 GARDEN AND OLD WITTE 1 April 2019 with the cannon placed and at sea, cannons were used as a alongside the Visitors’ Centre and the signalling system alerting the arrival WIJNAPPEL TREE SAPLING CTHT offices. of new ships and, in times of threat, as a call to arms. The cannons used were During the 17th, 18th and early largely 6-pounders and a 1-pounder 19th centuries, Table Bay was well at Plattekloof farm. Early in the defended with fortifications from Green 19th century, two 18-pounder cannons Point to the mouth of the Salt River in from the Imhoff Battery were brought Paarden Island. It was during this time into service at as part of a of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) time-signalling system. The that the cannon was used. The VOC still signals today. refreshment station, established at the Cape in 1652, was originally for enabling Headphones-alt For guided walks by the trade between Europe and the Far East. Cape Town Heritage Trust: This place was strategic for the Dutch Tel: +27 (0)21 426 2157. to protect. Arrow-right For fynbos tastings and apothecary Rivalry between the different trading workshops: companies was fierce and there was Tel: +27 (0)66 225 5722. enmity between the European powers (English, Dutch and French). Trade ships also had to defend themselves against Over 360 years ago, gardeners from layout of the Company’s Garden. privateers and pirates, and in so doing the Dutch East India Company (VOC) There are stone-lined open irrigation had to carry cannons (upwards of 24) as battled strong winds, drought, flooding, channels, reminiscent of the Dutch well as cannon balls. and unyielding soils to plant fruit and leiwater or water channels, piped from vegetables in the Company’s Garden the Stadsfontein Spring and the Field of for the ships plying the spice route Springs in upper . between Europe and the East. Today, The VOC vegetable garden is intended the Company’s Garden is the oldest to not only be an attraction, but also garden in South Africa. The City of Cape a resource to exhibit and teach urban Town has re-established a vegetable agriculture skills to people interested in and herb garden on the site of the old growing their own food. The vegetable Conservatory between the old Rose garden was selected as an official project Garden and the City Parks offices. The for World Design Capital 2014. project has been a joint project of the City’s Recreation and Parks Department The first apple tree grown in the and the Department of Environmental Company’s Garden in the 1650s has been Management. re-established through a partnership between Tru-Cape, Hortgro and CTHT. The VOC vegetable garden design According to historical records, the witte reflects the original Dutch quadrant wijnappel was the first apple picked in

38 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 39 ROSE, FYNBOS AND the Company’s Garden on 17 April 1662. 31 The variant of the original apple tree was INDIGENOUS GARDEN found in the Netherlands after exhaustive research, and budwood material was imported for propagating and planting of an historical apple tree in the Company’s Garden. After a considerable period of quarantine, a new tree was ready for planting and a ceremony took place on 17 April 2019 to coincide with the date the first apple was picked. The apple tree contributes to the rich heritage of the Company’s Garden and takes its place among other heritage varieties at the axis of the irrigation channel in the Garden.

The replanting of the witte wijnappel is a historic moment in the South African fruit industry, which would not have been possible without the extensive efforts and knowledge of industry veterans Henk Griessel and Buks Nel. The planting of historical material honours the founding roots of the apple industry in South Africa some 357 years ago.

Today, the contribution of the apple industry to the modern rural economies of the Western Cape is vast with 61 000 jobs supporting a further 234 649 dependents. The industry ensures food security, infrastructure The Company’s Garden did not only rosewater all over the world during the development, and foreign trade. contain fruit, herbs and vegetables. It Dutch period. The Rose Garden itself The South African apple industry is was from vines planted here that the follows a radial layout in a 1929 design. considered a leading player globally first wine was pressed in 1659. The first concerning product quality and taste, Given the stressed water situation Dutch rose was picked in the same year, as well as ethical trade and sustainable of Cape Town, a section of the Rose probably a 16th century hybrid (Rosa production practices. Garden is being converted to a Fynbos centifolia), which was a cross between Garden, including a range of proteas. The City of Cape Town, Tru-Cape, the Middle Eastern Damask and This water-wise section has been planted Hortgro and the CTHT will collectively Renaissance Alba roses. Roses became to the western side opposite the Cape manage the maintenance and a feature of the Garden, which exported Dutch Vegetable Garden. development of the apple tree.

40 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 41 CENTRE FOR THE BOOK: 32 62 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 33 DELVILLE WOOD MEMORIAL

Arrow-right Re-enter from Queen Victoria Street marks the upper extent of the original through white pillars to the Delville fresh produce garden of 1665. Wood Memorial site. Sculptor Alfred Turner’s Castor and This memorial commemorates the Pollux, inseparable twin gods linking 1916 World War I battle at Delville Wood hands above a horse, commemorates Arrow-right Exit from the Delville Wood It was intended as the University of in France, in which a predominantly South the South African soldiers who lost their Memorial site through white pillars the Cape of Good Hope, but instead African force of more than 3 000 soldiers lives in World War I. Towards Queen to Queen Victoria Street. was used as the Cape Archives until was reduced to 755 survivors by Victoria Street is a statue of General This domed building, which can be seen the 1980s. The building is a place German forces. Henry Lukin (who gave the orders to on Queen Victoria Street, is one of the where organisations involved with This powerful landscape was created at advance on Delville Wood) by South most impressive in Cape Town. This fine literacy, reading, publishing, and allied right angles to the axis of the Avenue African renowned sculptor Anton building was built in 1906 after architects cultural fields can use the facilities for and unveiled in 1930. With the National van Wouw. Hawke and McKinlay won a design conferences, symposia, training courses, Gallery at its Devil’s Peak side and a competition (the same architects of the events, and exhibitions. On the Avenue is a World War I artillery succession of ponds and memorials Supreme Court). Its main feature is the CLOCK  field gun and opposite, a statue of Open to visitors for intermittent leading to the big Cape Revival pillars on central dome surmounting single-storey General Jan Smuts (1870-1950) who was literary and other events. Check Queen Victoria Street, this design added façades over a sublevel, with minor Prime Minister of South Africa during media for details. a new style and spatial experience to domes over the two façade corners. World War II. The large fluid sculpture the Company’s Garden and connected of Smuts by Sidney Harper (1964) is the Victorian garden (see 10 10) to the representative of Smut’s great character Paddocks (see 45 ). Horizontal surfaces and his love for Table Mountain and of water and paving contrast with the South Africa. vertical elements, such as the cypress trees, masonry light pillars, and the memorials. The line of the fountains

42 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 43 34 IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM 35 IZIKO PLANETARIUM

This institution is the oldest in South The Museum houses important The original 1958 Cape Town inner workings of the human body, Africa, and was founded in 1825. The African zoology, palaeontology, and Planetarium on this site was replaced in atomic and chemical structures, and the 1897 building occupies land taken archaeology collections. Exhibition 1987. Today, the Planetarium and digital creative arts and animation – all through from the old Company’s Garden, highlights include: Fossils for Africa, dome is the most advanced on the a 360° cinematic experience. as with many of the other buildings Small Bones of the Ancient Karoo, African continent and this world-class Regular shows over the years, and here. The prize-winning design of Indigenous Knowledge, the Whale multifunctional facility brings digital to date, visually transport audiences JE Vixseboxse comprises a transitional Well, Wonders of Nature, Shark World, data technology, visualisation, and through the wonder of the universe and Gothic Renaissance style with a steep Mammals and Birds, World of Water, research to Cape Town. It creates a now, with additional focus areas, further dormer-pierced roof over an imposing and the Southern Oceans. Among the space of innovation and discovery, delight both young and old alike. eleven-bayed two-storey façade, with exhibitions are the enigmatic Lydenburg bringing together professionals, a Renaissance gable projecting over Heads and a fine collection of San rock students, families, and interested visitors CLOCK Open Tuesday to Sunday its middle section. Located on the paintings and engravings. to connect on a digital information and 10:00–17:00. Closed Christmas Day mountain side of the Delville Wood research spectrum. and Workers’ Day. CLOCK Open daily 10:00–17:00. Memorial, stairs lead upwards to the EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE Closed Christmas Day and The new digital dome theatre provides For show details: Museum’s forecourt and amphitheatre. Good Friday. edutainment and virtual travel to Tel: +27 (0)21 481 3900. The Museum has extensive modern EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE explore the universe, the oceans, the additions to its mountain side also Museum shop and café. visible on Government Avenue. Tel: +27 (0)21 481 3800.

44 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 45 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE 36 TOWN’S HIDDINGH 37 OLD LIONESS GATEWAY CAMPUS: LITTLE THEATRE

Arrow-right Proceed to the top of Government The Little Theatre Complex is home to By 1678, the Garden’s cultivated lots From 1820 to 1828, government slaves Avenue and exit at Orange Street. the ’s drama and had been extended to just uphill of this were also housed alongside the lions Walk around the UCT Hiddingh fine arts departments, and is a rite of point. This upper garden was turned and a tiger. When the Avenue was precinct and enter at the formal passage for most thespians, performers over for use as a menagerie by 1791. extended in 1804, a matching gateway entrance still on Orange Street. and theatre-goers in Cape Town. Most The gateway on the Signal Hill side of was erected on the Devil’s Peak side, The Little Theatre is part of the University actors and dancers who have performed the Avenue led into the menagerie, with plaster lions added a year later by of Cape Town’s Hiddingh Campus, which in the Western Cape either started out at which was closed in 1838. It was sculptor Anton Anreith. The lions on occupies the upper Signal Hill side of the Little Theatre, or have at some time designed by the French architect Louis the Devil’s Peak side were removed in the Avenue. It was constructed in 1903 appeared on the stage here, or even Michel Thibault, and the sculptures are the 19th century, to be replaced in the as a metallurgy laboratory by architects hosted their own production. by Anton Anreith. 1950s with modern sculptures by Ivan Mitford-Barberton. The lionesses on the Herbert Baker and Francis Masey. This For show details: Signal Hill side are the originals. building was later joined in 1933 by the phone Tel: +27 (0)21 650 7129 or email architect Brian Mansergh to a second [email protected]. building designed in 1881 by colonial architect HS Greaves. Together, these now form the Little Theatre.

46 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 47 38 EGYPTIAN BUILDING: OLD 39 IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE

This site, the former menagerie, Today, the building houses the sculpture Arrow-right Exit the UCT Hiddingh precinct converted to a House Museum in 1984, was given over to the South African studios of the Michaelis School of through the formal exit on Orange its graceful interiors include a furnished College in 1838 with work on this Fine Art. The Egyptian building derives Street. Walk around back on dining room, drawing room and a study, building beginning the following several style elements from buildings of Orange Street to enter at the top of with a fine collection of period furniture year. When completed and opened study and learning. It is U-shaped in plan, Government Avenue. showing the English gentry’s way of on 13 April 1841, it became the first with its forecourt surrounded by columns This piece of land was a private market life in mid-19th century Cape Town. building erected for higher education in with flared capitals. On the front end of garden, granted in 1794. On it, this Georgian furniture, Chinese and English South Africa and, as such, remains the the wings, the shape of a pylon temple is distinguished Georgian townhouse porcelain, as well as English silver and oldest building of what in time became suggested in plaster relief. The building, was completed in 1839. A perfectly kitchenware are displayed. part of the Hiddingh Campus of the with its tall sash windows, simple smooth proportioned, restrained design in EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE Under renovation and restoration. University of Cape Town. walls and elegant dignity, is essentially imported brick, its large flat surface CLOCK Closed to the public until Regency in character. The Egyptian style is given a picturesque accent by the further notice. appears at rare intervals in mid-Victorian projecting wind lobby. Restored and design – a reflection of an interest in antiquity.

48 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 49 40 MOUNT NELSON 42 ENTRANCE PORTICO AND HOPE MILL SITE

In 1924, architects Kendall and Morris designed the Neo-Classical monumental gateway portico to the Mount Nelson Hotel. Though across a busy road, the gateway certainly provides a satisfying termination to Government Avenue, and is a well-known landmark of Cape Town.

41 ORANGE STREET

Of the several water mills that drew to until the end of the century. All on the their power from the river flowing site was demolished in the 1950s and alongside Orange Street, Cape Town flattened for playing fields, leaving only High School was built on the site of a bluestone bank as a tell-tale sign of its The curving shape of Orange Street Hope Mill, erected by the Dutch East past. Decorative cannons, as is seen in shows its organic origin as a track to India Company (VOC) in 1685 and Government Avenue outside the school, the upper Table Valley market gardens. privatised in 1805. After becoming were often placed on building corners About half of the present road was a a desirable residence in the early to prevent traffic damage. deep river that collected water from the 19th century, it was constantly added streams and springs off Table Mountain, and was crossed by a bridge at the top of the Avenue. This was filled in for road widening and, in 1924, simple wrought iron side posts were made to conclude the Avenue. The crescent of pillars here are what remains today of a gateway constructed by Herman Schutte in 1804 under the direction of , who was the Inspector of Lands and Buildings at the time.

The 1777 view by Schumacher shows the Hope Mill site to the central upper part of the Garden

50 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 51 WATER CHANNELS (GRAGTEN) GARDENS COMMERCIAL 43 AND CULVERTS (SLOOTEN) 44 HIGH SCHOOL

For the first 150 years, the Company’s Outside Tuynhuys (see 51 ) on The Gardens Commercial High School from 1913, when MacGillivray and Grant Garden was enclosed. In 1804, the Government Avenue, the original walls is located on Avenue Terrace, Paddock refashioned it and probably added the Avenue was extended to Orange Street of one old remaining canal (gragt) is Lane – just south of the new Synagogue. gables. The balcony was added much and it became a pedestrian route linking visible, although overgrown with plants This attractive double-storey building later. The building became a university the town to the farms of the upper in the basin. A curved structure at one with a tiled roof is comprised of three residence in 1919 and a school in 1967. Table Valley – and soon thereafter, end of the canal directs water over a projecting semi-detached sections A Modern Movement building was suburban development. Remnants of projecting ledge. This built structure fronted by gables and full-height added in 1977. water channels (gragten) and culverts with the remnants of the channel is bay windows. The teak woodwork is A cast iron bollard in the form of a (slooten) created in the 17th century are known to have been in existence in 1791. particularly fine, as is the low openwork mace, near the entrance facing Paddock still evident to the sides of Government These are likely much older given the full front wall. Lane, is a reminder that the home of the Avenue. But there are also remains of establishment of a tree-lined Avenue The Cape Town Directory (1883) makes Speaker of the House of Parliament was much older structures underground. by the 1670s. reference to this building and it is also once at this site. Originally, these channels were supplied The stoned and paved culverts for shown on Thom’s Plan of Cape Town by a large source of spring water flowing CLOCK Not open to the public. irrigation purposes are also still visible (1898). Its present appearance dates along Orange Street, and were linked intermittently on the sides of the Avenue. to a network of irrigation structures This cultural landscape is, besides the throughout the Garden for fruit, herbs, Castle, one of the oldest surviving trees, and vegetables. This water was of post-European built artefacts in previously originally led to Wagenaer’s South Africa. Reservoir (built in 1663), where barrels were filled with fresh water and supplied to the docked ships.

52 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 53 GREAT SYNAGOGUE AND 45 THE PADDOCKS 46 HOLOCAUST CENTRE

Shady and uncluttered, the six lawns of In Victorian times, there was a bandstand The Great Synagogue (located alongside The Centre has a permanent exhibition the Paddocks are dotted with trees and at one of the intersections of lawn, where the Old Synagogue) is a large impressive that combines text, archival photographs, a circle of benches. The regular layout open-air concerts were a great attraction building. Its cream spires are a notable film footage, documents, multimedia of this area dates from the 17th century for the people of Cape Town. The landmark in the Gardens area and the displays, and recreated environments. Dutch period, when the individual bandstand was removed in 1937 and huge copper-clad dome dominates Educational programmes of many kinds ‘paddocks’ were surrounded by irrigation in its place a ‘crown’ of trees planted to the interior of the building. A huge are offered for groups and educators. channels and precisely trimmed hedges commemorate the coronation of semi-circular window and Ionic columns The Holocaust Centre shows the tragic reported to have reached several metres King George VI. are framed by the twin towers and consequences of racism, prejudice, in height. Inside were kept a variety of adjoining diagonal column buttresses. discrimination, and persecution, game animals for viewing by visitors. The large curved window lights up the resulting in genocide with the abuse The Garden, at that time, had several domed interior and the mosaic of the of political power and ideology. South other avenues of trees besides those on Ark alcove. The Synagogue was built in Africa’s political past is also highlighted Government Avenue – Paddock Lane is 1904 after designs of Parker and Forsyth, with the institutionalisation of racism, one of these. who were leading 20th century Cape inequality, and oppression through Town architects. apartheid.

Behind the Great Synagogue is the Cape CLOCK Open Sunday to Thursday Town Holocaust Centre established in 10:00–17:00 and 1999 – a place of remembrance for the Friday 10:00–14:00. six million Jews and other victims of Arrow-right Entrance: 88 Hatfield Nazism who died in the Holocaust. The Street, Gardens. Centre began as Africa’s first Holocaust User-friends For specialised group tours: Centre. Part of the aim is to bring to Tel: +27 (0)21 462 5556 or email light stories of survivors and ensure [email protected]. the atrocities of the Holocaust are not forgotten.

54 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 55 OLD SYNAGOGUE AND 47 JEWISH MUSEUM 48 OLD BOUNDARY WALLS

This rare building was built in 1862/63 a successful community. The great as the first synagogue in South Africa, impact of the Jewish community on and adjoins the present, much larger, South Africa’s political, economic, social, one, on Paddock Lane. It was originally cultural, and sporting spheres is of a freestanding building overlooking particular relevance. the parkland of the Company’s Garden A collection of Jewish ceremonial paddocks. Architect J Hogg used artefacts is housed in the Old an imaginative design with Egyptian Synagogue, with a drawbridge and antique motifs referring to the connecting the new Museum. Inside is Mediterranean and the Middle East – a high-tech world of interactive displays the origins of the Jewish faith. There and audio-visual presentations outlining are lotus bases and capitals to the the history of the South African Jewish antiquity-styled columns, flared door community. The walls along the boundary of the slightest rain penetration caused the surrounds, and a Star of David ventilator. Company’s land may be very old. The mud to wash away from between the CLOCK Open Sunday to Thursday The Synagogue is connected to the vernacular method of building used stones. An example of this method of 10:00–17:00, Friday 10:00–14:00 South African Jewish Museum at the rear. locally available materials such as stone building can be seen at the wall of the and Public Holidays. Closed This 1990s Modern Movement building in a mud mortar, plastered with seashell old Marist Brothers School, just past Saturday and Jewish holidays. is clad in Jerusalem stone with glass lime mortar. These depended on annual the Old Synagogue (see 47 ) along Arrow-right junctions. The Museum houses the story Entrance: 88 Hatfield lime-washing for their stability – the Paddock Lane. of an impoverished and persecuted Street, Gardens. group of Jewish immigrants, largely from User-friends For specialised group tours: Eastern Europe, arriving on southern Tel: +27 (0)21 465 1546 or email African shores and proceeding to build [email protected].

56 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 57 IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN 49 NATIONAL GALLERY

At a meeting in the Cape Town Public South Africa’s premier art museum Sir Herbert Baker had revived a is centrally placed a distance from Library convened in 1850, proposals houses outstanding collections of South vernacular Cape architecture featuring the National Gallery entrance. This to erect a building in the Company’s African, African, British, French, Dutch, Cape Dutch windows, shutters, and magnificent sculpture links with the Garden for the purpose of exhibiting art and Flemish art. Selections from the large expanses of blank walls, including ancient past cultures of southern Africa were discussed. The National Collection permanent collection change regularly Mediterranean vernacular forms with and Europe but is a modern age creation was founded in 1872, including a to enable the museum to have a full columns and Roman tiles. The National in form and style. bequest of paintings from the estate programme of temporary exhibitions of Gallery, completed in 1930, was CLOCK Open daily 09:00–17:00. Free entry of Thomas Butterworth Bayley. With paintings, works on paper, photography, designed by Public Works architect John on commemorative days. the SA Art Gallery Act of 1895, the sculpture, beadwork, textiles, and Cleland with definitive Baker influences. EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE  SA Government took over the collection architecture. They provide insight into Recently, Ndebele-style painting has Annex to the National Gallery in trust and purchased premises in the the extraordinary range of aesthetic been added to the front alcoves, with (behind the walls) used as venue for Company’s Garden. The foundations artistic and creative production in this modern sculptures outdoors in the occasional exhibitions. were only laid in 1914 with the collection country, the African continent, and grounds surrounding the Gallery. being kept in a wing of the SA Museum. further afield. Of significance is the Numinous Beast The current building officially opened to During the first quarter of the sculpture of renowned South African the public on 3 November 1930. In 20th century, architects tried to develop artist Bruce Murray Arnott, which 1937, the building was expanded an appropriate South African style. to accommodate the work of South

African artists.

58 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 59 TUYNHUYS AND 50 51 ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE OLD GRAGT BRIDGE OF THE GARDEN

For most of its existence, Tuynhuys – the Converted to Regency style by the Garden House – has been the home of British Governor Lord Charles Somerset the Governor of the Cape and today is in the 1820s, it acquired delicate used by the President on State occasions. timber tracery and the swag verandas The building seemingly had modest that still exist on each side. Following beginnings with the earliest known South Africa’s withdrawal from the reference to the site being in 1674, when Commonwealth in 1961, the dominant Grey squirrels were introduced by Cecil as a whole. There are Egyptian geese, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) centre was restored to its 18th century John Rhodes in 1890. These are larger hadeda ibises, Hartlaub’s gulls, Cape first built a ‘garden house’ to store the form by architect Gabriel Fagan and the than their European counterparts and turtle doves, laughing doves, Cape tools for the Company’s large garden parterre garden was recreated. With its the Garden’s oak trees and water bodies robins, feral pigeons, pied crows, olive established by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652. imposing symmetry and elaborate detail, have become an appropriate habitat, thrushes, Cape white eyes, European it expresses order and authority through as in many parts of Cape Town. The starlings, and an occasional fish eagle. In about 1682, the ‘tool shed’ was the medium of architecture. squirrels are extremely tame and nuts Feral cats are known to keep the rodent converted into a guesthouse to entertain may be bought to feed them at the start population down and are given scraps foreign visitors of Governor Simon van On the eastern side of Government of the Avenue. by animal lovers. The Garden is alive der Stel. It was enlarged in 1751 by Ryk Avenue, a culvert opens into a channel with small animals and insects, including Tulbagh, the first Cape-born governor. (gragt), now overgrown with greenery Other animals have also made their butterflies, frogs, dragonflies, and the The building was given a powerful, in the basin, outside Tuynhuys. A small home in the Company’s Garden precinct rare chameleon. almost Baroque façade, and the site arched bridge over the channel provides elaborately landscaped into a parterre a view through majestic old black garden (a formally patterned flower wrought iron gates (18th century) of garden) in 1788 by Governor Van de Tuynhuys and its garden. This is the one Graaff – the VOC’s last extravagance remaining bridge of its kind from the before bankruptcy. early 1800s built to give access to the houses over still existing Dutch gragten or waterways.

60 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 61 ACCESS AND SAFETY SECURITY coffee shop with refreshments inside the Iziko South African Museum (see 34 ). The Company’s Garden is popular for picnics, exhibitions, children’s parties, TOILETS markets, wedding photos, and various classes. CCTV cameras have been There is a Victorian Chalet: Public installed inside the Garden and along Lavatory with an entrance for women Government Avenue – these are linked in the Garden and for men off Queen to the City’s CCTV network. Additional Victoria Street (see 14 ). There are also street lamps have been installed in toilets inside the various public buildings the Paddocks and in Government and at the Company’s Garden Restaurant Avenue. The precinct is patrolled by in the Garden precinct. security guards from the City Centre Improvement District (CCID). The PARKING CCID has a permanent presence with Public parking is available at 80 Hatfield operational units next to the Paddocks Street at the rear of the Iziko SA National and are contracted to the City of Cape Gallery (see 49 ), at the SA Jewish Town. The Company’s Garden is closed Museum on the corner of Hatfield at night and Government Avenue should and Avenue Street, in Hof and Curtis rather be avoided after dark. Street off Orange Street, and in Queen Victoria Street. COMMUNICATION The Company’s Garden has been DISABLED installed with free Wi-Fi access and The route is suitable for wheelchairs. visitors are able to check emails, make Disabled parking is available at calls, and access social media. This also 19 Queen Victoria Street on request to helps with security. City Recreation and Parks. There is also parking at the Iziko SA National Gallery REFRESHMENTS (see 49 ). The new Company’s Garden Restaurant together with the play area with nests, sculptures and logs is very popular and child friendly (see 26 ). There is also a

62 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 63 KEY TO PLACES OF INTEREST AND WALK KEY TO PLACES OF INTEREST AND WALK SITE NAME AND NUMBER PAGE SITE NAME AND NUMBER PAGE 1. Iziko Slave Lodge 9 31. Rose, Fynbos and Indigenous Garden 41 2. Parliament Lane 10 32. Centre for the Book: 62 Queen Victoria Street 42 3. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Arch 11 33. Delville Wood Memorial 43 4. Entrance to the Company’s Garden 12 34. Iziko South African Museum 44 5. Houses of Parliament 13 35. Iziko Planetarium 45 6. Government Avenue 14 36. University of Cape Town’s Hiddingh Campus: Little Theatre 46 7. St George’s Cathedral 15 37. Old Lioness Gateway 47 8. Old Grammar School and Labyrinth 17 38. Egyptian Building: Old South African College 48 9. National Library of South Africa 18 39. Iziko Bertram House 49 10. The Company’s Garden: The Public Garden 19 40. Mount Nelson Entrance Portico 50 11. Sir George Grey Statue 21 41. Orange Street 50 12. Japanese Lantern 21 42. Cape Town High School and Hope Mill Site 51 13. The Bothy 22 43. Water Channels (gragten) and Culverts (slooten) 52 14. Chalet: Public Lavatory 23 44. Gardens Commercial High School 53 15. Old City and Civil Service Club: 16 and 18 Queen Victoria Street 24 45. The Paddocks 54 16. Supreme Court: 20 – 28 Queen Victoria Street 25 46. Great Synagogue and Holocaust Centre 55 17. High Court Civil Annex: 38 Queen Victoria Street 26 47. Old Synagogue and Jewish Museum 56 18. Huguenot Memorial: 46 Queen Victoria Street 27 48. Old Boundary Walls 57 19. Old Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa: 52 Queen 28 49. Iziko South African National Gallery 58 Victoria Street 50. Tuynhuys and Old Gragt Bridge 60 20. Herb and Succulent Garden 29 51. Animals and Wildlife of the Garden 61 21. Old Saffron Pear Tree 30 22. Rutherfoord Fountain 31 23. Sundial Area 32 24. Cecil John Rhodes Statue 33 25. Slave Bell, Tower and Aviary 34 26. Company’s Garden Restaurant and Play Area 35 27. Tree Grove 36 28. Thorne Fountain 36 29. Director’s House, Visitors’ Centre and Old Cannon 37 30. Cape Dutch Vegetable Garden and Old Witte Wijnappel 39 Tree Sapling

64 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 65 LIST OF TREES LIST OF TREES COMMON NAME SA TREE COMMON NAME DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION Scientific name NO. Scientific name OLD WITTE WIJNAPPEL A Europe. The apple tree variant from which the first apple BLACK MULBERRY L West Asia. The tree dates back to 1800 and is thought to TREE SAPLING was picked on 17 April 1662. Original tree found in the Morus nigra be a seedling from one of the original trees planted to Malus domestica Netherlands and budwood cultivated into a sapling for the establish a silk industry in the Cape. See 30 present Company’s Garden. Historically significant for the GUM MYRTLE M Australia. Reaches up to 25 m, with gnarled limbs. Grey now well-established SA apple industry. Angophora costata bark shed in spring to reveal new pink bark. Appears in OUTENIQUA YELLOW WOOD B Indigenous. Protected species. Highly SA 16 See 23 Bowler painting of 1851. Podocarpus falcatus valued timber used for boat building. SAFFRON PEAR N Europe. A long-lived species that can reach 500 years Several ‘big tree’ species reach 60 m in the Pyrus communis or more, and 20 m in height. This one in the Company’s Southern Cape’s Outeniqua, Knysna and See 21 Garden is believed to be the oldest cultivated tree in Tsitsikamma forests. South Africa. WILD DATE PALM C Indigenous. Eastern Cape to Egypt. Leaves SA 22 GINGKO (MAIDENHAIR) TREE P China. Once thought extinct, it is the only living Phoenix reclinata used for woven products including boys’ Ginkgo biloba representative of a family that was widespread in the time See 27 skirts in Xhosa initiation rites. Palm wine is of the dinosaurs. A well-known tree for medicinal uses. made from the sap. Beans used as a coffee Roasted seeds are edible. substitute. ENGLISH OAK Q Europe. Bought to the Cape in the 17th century for TREE ALOE D Indigenous. Found in forests in the east of the SA 28 Quercus robur timber. Trees prone to a number of diseases due to Aloidendron barberae country. The largest aloe species in southern the Mediterranean climate of the Cape, and are being See 28 Africa reaching 18 m and the only aloe with replaced with other types of oak, such as turkey oaks. pink-orange flowers. SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA R North America. Reaches up to 27 m. Large white flowers COASTAL STRELITZIA E Indigenous. Related to the banana and the SA 34 Magnolia grandiflora measuring 20-30 cm. The glossy leaves are widely used in Strelitzia nicolai crane flower (Strelitzia reginae). The leaves and the florist industry, especially for wreaths. seeds of this species of strelitzia are used for S New Zealand. The red bristling flowers are very basketware, spiritual rituals and adornments. NEW ZEALAND CHRISTMAS TREE characteristic of the Christmas season. Tolerant to acid BROOM CLUSTER FIG F Indigenous. Widespread in the east to SA 50 Metrosideros excelsa rain and wind. Ficus sur – Ficus carpensis northeast. Often found growing on termite T India and tropical Asia. Can be kept as a potted mounds. Uses range from wagon brake RUBBER TREE Ficus elastica houseplant, but when outdoors grows to a 15 m tall, blocks to drums. Fruit relished by certain birds sprawling tree. Sap is used for making rubber. and animals. SWAMP CYPRUS U Central and North America. Can survive submerged in CORAL TREE G Indigenous. Found in coastal forests SA 242 swamps for months. Oldest specimen dated 1 622 years. Erythrina caffra from the Garden Route to KwaZulu-Natal. (BALD CYPRESS) Taxodium distichum Tallest in Virginia (USA) measured 44 m. Small cones and Orange-scarlet flowers and seeds. This tree feathery foliage. is widely used for landscaping in temperate areas throughout the world. SALIGNA GUM (STUMP) V Australia. One of some 200-300 species of Australian gum Eucalyptis grandis trees introduced for timber – only seven of the several SACRED FIG H Asian. Known as the Bo-Tree (from Sanskrit Bodhi: See 26 hundred gum trees are invasive alien trees. Although Ficus religiosa - Moraceae 'wisdom' 'enlightened'). Large dry season deciduous/ declared an invader, this particular specimen (stump) at semi-green - 30 m height and 3 m trunk. the Company’s Garden Restaurant and play area can be Leaves are a distinctive 'drip-tip'. Fruit are small, green figs retained, as six of the invasive gums may be grown in a ripening to purple. Buddhist legend - Gautama Buddha controlled environment. attaining enlightenment beneath. MORETON BAY CHESTNUT W Australia. Also called a black bean, the seed pod BOX ELDER J North America. A variegated, smaller species of the Castanospernum australe measuring 180 mm in length produces 3-5 seeds 50 mm Acer negundo variegatum original box elder. Planted for its ornamental qualities and in diameter. The seeds are poisonous when raw. fir shade. AFRICAN FLAME TREE X Tropical Africa. Originates in the tropics. Ornamental NORFOLK ISLAND PINE K Norfolk Island. Reaches up to 60 m. A tall, straight, Spathodea campulanata tree with large orange-scarlet cup-shaped flowers. Araucaria heterophylla symmetrical, South Pacific island tree. Well adapted to Poisonous fruit. See 23 windy environments. Appears in Bowler painting of 1851. NATAL FIG Y Indigenous. Reaches heights of 20 m and just SA 57 Ficus natalensis as wide. The Koina name was t'Kaa and the bark fibre was used to make rope.

66 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 67 A. Old Witte Wijnappel B. Outeniqua Yellow Wood C. Wild Date Palm N. Saffron Pear P. Ginko Tree Q. English Oak

D. Tree Aloe E. Coastal Strelitzia F. Broom Cluster Fig R. Southern Magnolia S. New Zealand Christmas Tree T. Rubber Tree

G. Coral Tree H. Sacred Fig J. Box Elder U. Swamp Cyprus V. Saligna Gum (Stump) W. Moreton Bay Chestnut

K. Norfolk Island Pine L. Black Mulberry M. Gum Myrtle X. African Flame Tree Y. Natal Fig

68 City of Cape Town Heritage Series: places and walks Company's Garden and Precinct 69 PLACES OF INTEREST LIST OF TREES THE COMPANY'S GARDEN AND PRECINCT WALK AND WALK A Old Witte Wijnappel Tree Sapling B Outeniqua Yellow Wood GREY’S PASS 1. Iziko Slave Lodge C Wild Date Palm 2. Parliament Lane 3. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Arch D Tree Aloe CENTRE FOR 4. Entrance to the Company’s Garden E Coastal Strelitzia NORTH THE BOOK GREEN STREET 5. Houses of Parliament 19 18 17 16 15 F Broom Cluster Fig 32 6. Government Avenue QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 7. St George’s Cathedral G Coral Tree PLANETARIUM H 8. Old Grammar School and Labyrinth H Sacred Fig 35 29 14 STREET WALE DELVILLE WOOD 30 22 13 9. National Library of South Africa UCT HIGGINGH CAMPUS MEMORIAL A 26 20 J Box Elder 21 12 B N ST GEORGES MALL 10. The Company’s Garden: The Public Garden V 33 M U U 11. Sir George Grey Statue K Norfolk Island Pine IZIKO SA F MUSEUM 34 31 28 24 23 11 D P Q 12. Japanese Lantern L Black Mulberry P G C S K ST GEORGES J SA NATIONAL 13. The Bothy ORANGE STREET 27 CATHEDRAL Gum Myrtle R LIBRARY M 25 PUBLIC 7 Chalet: Public Lavatory MOUNT L 14. 39 38 37 36 E GARDEN 8 N Saffron Pear NELSON 40 W 15. Old City and Civil Service Club: 16 and 18 Queen HOTEL 10 9 41 33 6 4 3 Victoria Street P Gingko (Maidenhair) Tree GOVERNEMENT AVENUE 16. Supreme Court: 20 – 28 Queen Victoria Street 42 43 ADDERLEY STREET Q English Oak THE 50 17. High Court Civil Annex: 38 Queen Victoria Street PADDOCK R Southern Magnolia 2 18. Huguenot Memorial: 46 Queen Victoria Street HOF 45 STREET CAPE TOWN HIGH SCHOOL PARLIAMENT 1 19. Old Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa: 52 S New Zealand Christmas Tree IZIKO SLAVE Queen Victoria Street T Rubber Tree P 5 LODGE 20. Herb and Succulent Garden Swamp Cyprus (Bald Cypress) TUYNHUIS U LANE PARLIAMENT 21. Old Saffron Pear Tree P 46 47 49 22. Rutherfoord Fountain V Saligna Gum (Stump) 44 P GREAT 23. Sundial Area W Moreton Bay Chestnut SYNAGOGUE 24. Cecil John Rhodes Statue X African Flame Tree Slave Bell, Tower and Aviary 25. GARDENS COMMERCIAL IZIKO SA STAL Y Natal Fig HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL PLEIN 26. Company’s Garden Restaurant and Play Area GALLERY 51 PAY PAY LANE GALLERY

27. Tree Grove STREET AVENUE 28. Thorne Fountain P P 29. Director’s House, Visitors’ Centre and Old Cannon HATFIELD STREET PLEIN STREET 30. Cape Dutch Vegetable Garden and Old Witte Wijnappel Tree Sapling QUEEN VICTORIA STREET 31. Rose, Fynbos and Indigenous Garden P H THE BOTHY 32. Centre for the Book: 62 Queen Victoria Street 29 14 33. Delville Wood Memorial Water channels 30 13 34. Iziko South African Museum VISITORS 26 Lawns CENTRE 22 35. Iziko Planetarium A TEA ROOM 12 36. University of Cape Town’s Hiddingh Campus: Places of interest and 21 HERB GARDEN 1 51 SUCCULENT Little Theatre GARDEN JAPANESE walk B N 20 LANTERN 37. Old Lioness Gateway V 38. Egyptian Building: Old South African College Trees – List of trees and M A W RHODES T U 39. Iziko Bertram House walk F STATUE SUNDIAL SIR GEORGE 40. Mount Nelson Entrance Portico GREY STATUE P Parking 28 24 23 11 41. Orange Street 31 P D X P Q 42. Cape Town High School and Hope Mill Site Disabled parking G C S 43. Water Channels (gragten) and Culverts (slooten) K SLAVE BELL AVIARY THE WELL 44. Gardens Commercial High School Toilets 27 J 45. The Paddocks ROSE GARDEN Disabled toilets Y 25 R 46. Great Synagogue and Holocaust Centre L 47. Old Synagogue and Jewish Museum 29 Visitors Centre E 48. Old Boundary Walls W 49. Iziko South African National Gallery 10 50. Tuynhuys and Old Gragt Bridge 51. Animals and Wildlife of the Garden GOVERNMENT AVENUE 0 10 20 30 40 50 INSET: ENLARGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN AREA SCALE OF INSET:M

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