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Lubynski passed his Royal Institute of British Architects nal examination
at the University of Cape Town in 1929 having spent from 1925 until 1928
working with Walgate and Elsworth.

His local works in the Kalk Bay - St James area included the design of the
new St. James Mission School after it moved from Star of the Sea, St. James
to Kalk Bay. He drew up these plans in 1942 although the building (Builder:

Kenneth Mann) was only started in late 1946 and completed in 1947 (today
known as the St James Primary School). In 1944 he drew up plans for a new
classroom block at Star of the Sea Convent on the south (Jacobs Ladder)
side, which was also completed by Kenneth Mann that year.

Father Harold Doran requested Lubynski draw up plans in 1947 for the
changing of the single south-facing entrance to the Catholic Church on
Main Road St James to a double east-facing entrance on Main Road. This
Lubynski did most successfully and on completion in 1949 the alteration was
referred to in Father Doran’s correspondence as the War Memorial Porch.
Lubynski also at the same time was involved, at Father Doran’s request,
with the design of a new baptistry and choir section for the church.

Mansergh, Brian (1897-1977) ARIBA (1922)

Brian Mansergh was born in Wynberg and
attended school at Rondebosch Boys High
and SACS. He served articles with Kendall
and Morris and after a spell overseas rejoined
their ofce in 1924. His involvement in St.
James began when he was a junior partner
in F.K. Kendall’s practice and designed the
home Oskosi (later Abahati), 15 St. James
Road, for Maria Flegg in 1930. Mansergh
opened his own practice in 1932 and in 1934

was the architect of the controversial Bellmer
Flats for Elembee (Pty) Ltd. (see Chapter 14
Homes of St. James). In 1936 he did extensive
alterations and additions at Balgarthen, 108
Main Road, for John Orr the departmental Brian Mansergh - 1933
store entrepreneur. Mansergh’s greatest contribution to
the Cape lay outside architecture. He left a legacy for the work he and Dr.
S.H. “Stacey” Skaife did in the founding of the Cape of Good Hope Nature
Reserve.
Mansergh died in 1977, aged eighty. He was a divorcee and had no
children.