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Jones, Herbert (1875-1953) LRIBA (1912)

Herbert Jones was born in Kimberley and served his articles with Charles
Freeman and later travelled overseas working in Blackpool on the Victorian
Pier for architects T.P. Worthington and Son before returning to Cape Town
in 1896.

He specialised in hotel architecture with extensive work at the Marine,
Alexandra and Mon Deisir hotels in Muizenberg. At St. James he was
involved in the St. James Hotel where in 1910 he did alterations and additions
for the owner Mary Ann Chapman. The hotel then consisted
of eight bedrooms. In 1913 Spencer Stanseld bought
the hotel from Mary Ann Chapman’s insolvent
estate and called on Herbert Jones to do major
extensions and additions which involved a new
frontage as well as extending the original hotel,
both north and south, to include forty-one new
rooms both upstairs and downstairs. These rooms
included bedrooms, laundry-rooms, cloak-rooms
etc., as well as a large central dining-room with
the necessary passages, corridors, serving-rooms
and kitchen. In August 1918 Jones designed a front
balcony which ran the length of the main entrance as

well as additional balconies for the rst oor bedrooms. H. T. Jones - 1905

St. James Hotel - c. 191 before extensions