The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . op making a similar suggestion, and adding that might be used as a Chapel of Ease. At the beginning of 1837 the Church Committee wroteto the Archdeacon urging the necessity of another laid stress on the distance of St. Marks from the cavalrybarracks, mentioning the reason why the site was chosen ;they pointed out the unsuitableness of barrack rooms for divineservice; and they press
The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . op making a similar suggestion, and adding that might be used as a Chapel of Ease. At the beginning of 1837 the Church Committee wroteto the Archdeacon urging the necessity of another laid stress on the distance of St. Marks from the cavalrybarracks, mentioning the reason why the site was chosen ;they pointed out the unsuitableness of barrack rooms for divineservice; and they pressed the erection of a new Church on thesite chosen by Bishop Corrie. These appeals were without effect, and the question re-mained in abeyance till 1840. Meanwhile the Bev. George Trevor had come to the station,and was shocked to see the font in the west verandah, whereit had been placed to make more sitting room inside thebuilding. This arrangement he was instrumental in gettingaltered.* In March 1840 the Church Committee addressed the 1 Letter, Feb. 15, 1833, Eccl. 2 Despatch, July 3 and Dec. 4, 1833, 11, Eccl. 3 Now the infantry barracks. 4 St. Marks Records, Correspondence Book,
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