Colonial Architecture Project

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by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada

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Madras, St Mary's (Fort) Church

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1680 by Master Gunner William Dixon and Edward Fowle; tower 1701; steeple 1710. Tower attached to church 1760, date of the curving staircases. One of the oldest British buildings in India. Gunners were traditionally also engineers in this period.

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