The Stations of the Cross Sculptures in the St Andrew’s School for Girls’ Chapel were a donation from the Matric Class of 1978. The fourteen sculptures depict events in the Passion of Christ, from His condemnation to death to His entombment. Prayerful meditation using the Stations of the Cross through the period of Lent is traditional in many Christian churches.
The sculptures were originally in the Nuns’ Chapel of the Kensington Sanatorium, built in 1897.
The Kensington Sanatorium, c 1915 (A Johannesburg Album)
A French order, the Sisters of the Holy Family, established the sanatorium and staffed it. In 1970 the nursing home moved to Eton Road, Parktown where it opened as the Kenridge Hospital, now part of the Donald Gordon Medical Centre. The sanatorium has become the Life New Kensington Clinic for Rehabilitation.
The Life New Kensington Clinic (Carlo Kaminski)
Penny Sonnenfeld was a Matric student in 1978: her father Dr Sonnenfeld, sourced the Stations of the Cross sculptures and gained permission for them to be placed in the St Andrew’s School Chapel. They were installed in 1979. Over the years the sculptures had lost their lustre, became dusty and...
