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3 unusual facts about St Boniface Church Germiston


St Boniface Church Germiston

Past well-known rectors of the parish have included Fr Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, who later became Dean of Johannesburg and was subsequently deported by the apartheid government in 1972, Fr Robin Roy Snyman who became Dean of Kimberley and later Vice-Provost of Port Elizabeth and Bishop David Albert Beetge who became the first bishop of The Highveld.

The parish is affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music, and the choir members regularly attend workshops and choir schools run by the local northern branch of the RSCM.

The church, which is of a stone structure throughout, has typical Norman or Romanesque features, as found in many of Baker's buildings, including some of the most beautiful stained glass windows of the early 20th century.



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