Some info on the ruins:
St Peters Anglican church was started in 1871, as a daughter church of St Mary’s, in temporary premises. The church obtained part of the St Mary’s cemetery land and built a permanent church building in 1975. It was designed and built by Rev George Smith, who became the first minister. In 1877 it was inaugurated, and served the culturally mixed community who resided in South End. The church also housed a school for coloured and Malay children, as they had no school of their own. St Peters was the first school in South End to educate up to the maximum level available for coloureds at that time, standard 6. Thereafter they had to go to Dower College in Uitenhage to train as teachers if they wanted further education, as no other tertiary education was available for them. During the 1960s, the apartheid Government decreed that South End was to be declared a white area and the existing residents were forcibly removed to make way for new townhouse developments. The Government decreed that churches, mosques and schools would be spared the demolitions, so initially St Peters church survived, but when most of the congregants had been forced to leave the area, it was finally deconsecrated in 1972. The empty building was vandalised, the ruined remains have stood amidst the newer developments as a relic of those forced removals ever since.
source: “South End as We Knew it” by Yusef Agherdien, Ambrose C George and Shaheed Hendricks,1997,
“Port Elizabeth” by Margaret Harradine,1996