Cory Library and Historical Archives

Item sets

• Subject is exactly Bathurst (South Africa) 🗙

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  Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  The Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa collection is a curated set of digitised historical resources held by the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University. It documents the town of Bathurst in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, including visual and cartographic materials that illustrate the town’s landscape, architecture, and historical development within the broader context of Eastern Cape frontier history. The items span the early settlement and colonial periods, including aerial views, architectural photographs (such as those of St. John’s Church, built in 1832), historical plans and maps of the town, and images of notable local features like Round Hill and old settler houses. This collection contributes to understanding the patterns of settlement, religious and civic infrastructure, and geographical context of a key 19th century colonial town on the Albany frontier. The collection sits within the Frontier Collection and contributes to research on settler town development, local history, and material culture in the Eastern Cape.
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  Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Bathurst

  The Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Bathurst collection is a digitised archival set from the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University, focusing on ecclesiastical heritage in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is part of the Cory Churches Collections, situated under the broader categorisation of Anglican and Church of the Province of Southern Africa materials. This small but focused collection comprises three digitised items, each depicting or documenting an old plan of the graveyard of St John’s Anglican Church in Bathurst. Through these historical plans, the collection provides insight into the layout, organisation, and spatial history of church burial grounds, reflecting aspects of religious practice, community memory, and local heritage tied to one of Bathurst’s longstanding ecclesiastical institutions.