St Thomas Anglican Church

Stanford’s historical St Thomas Anglican church will be celebrating its 150^th year of existence during the weekend 19 & 20 July.  The main feature will be a celebration concert on Saturday the 20^th from 6 – 8 pm.  This will be a black tie event, with the inspiring A Volonté Trio from Hermanus (who between them play the piano, violin, cello, clarinet, saxophone, accordion and the organ) providing an outstanding programme of classical music.  Guest artist will be local soprano Bea Whittaker, performing, amongst others, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, a magnificent piece of chamber music for voice, clarinet and piano.  There will also be a short organ piece on the church’s reed organ, which is being restored at the moment and will hopefully be ready by 20 July.

The concert is a fund-raising event to enable the church to fix the thatch roof of the adjacent hall – the original ‘oulap’ school in Stanford.   Tickets are therefore sold at R175p/p, which includes a pre-concert glass of sherry and a post-concert mingle with local wine, soup and canapés prepared by Alex and Tabby from Graze, and sweets prepared by the congregation. Well worth the expense!

Only 100 seats are available, and the event will be publicised far and wide, as well as to everyone who got married in the church the last 5 years!  Tickets are available from Bea Whittaker [(028) 341-0430 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ] or from the Tourism Bureau.