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 . ,? ~~. h h z< DCh O o DC X o CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1805 AND 1815 129 by the congregation. The rest are over seventy years have perpendicular backs and are said to be very uncom-fortable ; but a vertical back is better than no back at lamps and the American reed organ were the gifts ofMr. J. Andrews of the Madras Civil Service. Mr. W S. White-side was the donor of the brass altar cr
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 . ,? ~~. h h z< DCh O o DC X o CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1805 AND 1815 129 by the congregation. The rest are over seventy years have perpendicular backs and are said to be very uncom-fortable ; but a vertical back is better than no back at lamps and the American reed organ were the gifts ofMr. J. Andrews of the Madras Civil Service. Mr. W S. White-side was the donor of the brass altar cross and of a solidwell-made altar table. No burials have taken place inside the Church. There are,however, two monumental tablets worthy of notice. The oneon the south wall is to the memory of the Eev. Eichard Smyth,who died at Bangalore; he was Chaplain of Arcot from 1814 to1829. The one on the north wall commemorates CaptainJohn Stedman Cotton of the 7th Madras Light Cavalry, whodied of cholera at Chittoor in 1843. He was the author of The Tale of a Tiger, from which The Tale of a Tub issupposed to have been derived. The tablet is by Weekes thesculptor, and includes a medallion
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