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THE ANGLICAN CHURCH SCHOOL “STONEHAVEN”

Mike Walker

Introduction

Known to the Kalk Bay fishermen as ‘die Klipskool’ (the stone school), this school was
situated in front of the Holy Trinity Church. (Fig. 3.18.) It was built in 1883 between the

Main Road on the one side and the railway line and Dalebrook Beach on the other side. The

Cape Government granted this site in compensation for the original school and teacher’s
cottage which had been expropriated when the railway reached Kalk Bay in January 1883.

The school and the cottage were demolished and the Kalk Bay Railway station was

constructed on that site.

The first Anglican School

These early buildings were built in 1846 as the Anglican Mission School by the first Anglican

activity in Kalk Bay, which came in the form of the Wnberg and Rondebosch Christian

Instruction Society. The Society had on 29 December 1845 been given a free grant of Erf
89883 by the Cape Government. This lay “just to the north-east of the principal group of

fishermen’s huts and close to the beach on the seaward side of the main road.” (Langham-

Carter, 1981.) It was 56 square roods in extent, i.e .35 acres. Originally two small building
were constructed one of which was the home of the catechist, whom the Society employed to

teach and hold services, and the other, which was separated from the first by a playground,

was a chapel for the fishermen on Sunday and was used as a school during weekdays. In 1871
Miss Alice Pocklington, a sister of the St. George’s Order, which was established by Bishop

Gray as part of his evangelical drive, taught at this school.

With the building of the Holy Trinity Church in 1874 the chapel was converted into a proper

school and extended. This was financed by Alice Pocklington and Harriet and Charlotte
Humphreys.