Michaelhouse
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Michaelhouse is a full boarding senior school for boys founded in 1896. It is located in the Balgowan valley in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The chapel rose window depicts the head of Christ surrounded by the birds of Natal Province.
The Michaelhouse Chapel, full school Eucharist, 2019
High Performance Sports Centre, 2022
Lecture room, 2019
Herbert Baker
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Sir Herbert Baker was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He was born and died at Owletts in Cobham, Kent.
Herbert Baker
View of the rear of Groote Schuur, c. 1905
The Honoured Dead Memorial, commemorating the Siege of Kimberley, was designed by Baker. The architecture was influenced by the Nereid Monument at Xanthus.
The McClean Observatory in Observatory, Cape Town, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and was completed in 1897.