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Black’s architecture was
very much in evidence in
Kalk Bay where the home
Roxton for Rev. Thomas
Marsh was prominent
while in Muizenberg his

most well known design
was the Synagogue in
Camp Road.

Ambleside

Black and Fagg’s
most impressive work in
Ambleside - c. 1930 Kalk Bay followed later
at the site of today’s Bible Institute of South Africa. In 1920.
after Rev. Thomas Edward Marsh had bought a large estate in
Kalk Bay from Rev. Coldstream Ernest Sampson, he requested Black and
Fagg to obtain permission from the Town Clerk of the City of Cape Town to
demolish an empty house on the site. This was duly granted and Black and
Fagg then designed a sumptuous double-storey home on this site for Rev.
Marsh, which he called Roxton (7581 January 1921).

Black and Fag followed this home with the design in April 19231 of a
chauffeur’s cottage and garages (7792). Across the Main Road later that year
they designed a home, 177 Main Road, Kalk Bay for a Mr. F.B. Barling (8648).

In 1923 the partnership Herbert Black and Fagg (William had died in July
1922) designed a church hall on Main Road which later they redesigned c.1925
into the delightful Methodist-Wesleyan church (10839). Today it is an inter-
denominational
church known
as the Kalk Bay
Community Church.
Marsh died on 26
September 1935
and he bequeathed
the entire estate,
including Roxton,
to the Bible Institute
of South Africa of
which he was the
Founder and rst

Roxton - January 2010