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"Blantyre Manse & Church". "Blantyre Manse & Church". Exterior view of Blantyre manse with a road leading to the church in the distance. The manse is to the left of the image and there are two Europeans, Dr. Hetherwick and a woman standing on the veranda of the manse looking towards the camera, there appears to be an animal skin hanging from the veranda fencing in front of them. There is also a European woman seated on the wall of the steps up to the veranda. There is a large tree to the left of the steps and trees in front of the church. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’. The Blantyre mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash, crops. This was, in part, a response to the slave trade and missionaries believed that an end to this practice could only be achieved through the development of alternative trading patterns. Blantyre manse was built by David Clement Scott in 1883, replacing the old original manse but retaining its name 'Maganga', which means the ‘stone’ house.
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