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 . nd sanctioned by the Government of Madrasin 1848 x at a cost not exceeding At that time thestation was known as Seetabuldee. The Directors were con-sulted before building was The body measured36 X 25 X 20 feet, the sacrarium 7 X 12 feet ; Lieut. R. H,Sankey 3 of the Madras Engineers was the architect; and thecost, which was very little in excess of the estimate, was borneby the Gov
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 . nd sanctioned by the Government of Madrasin 1848 x at a cost not exceeding At that time thestation was known as Seetabuldee. The Directors were con-sulted before building was The body measured36 X 25 X 20 feet, the sacrarium 7 X 12 feet ; Lieut. R. H,Sankey 3 of the Madras Engineers was the architect; and thecost, which was very little in excess of the estimate, was borneby the Government of Madras. In the year 1848 the same Government declined to surroundthe Seetabuldee burial-ground with a wall; they thought ahedge sufficient This was almost the last refusalto secure a Christian burial-ground for Europeans againstprofanation and desecration of various kinds on the part of 1 Consultations, Sept. 26, 1848, No. 15, Eccl. ; July 17, 1849, Nos. 2, 3,Eccl. 2 Letters, Jan. 17, 1848, 9, Eccl. ; Feb. 22, 1848, 10-13, Eccl.; Despatch,July 19, 1848, 2, Eccl. 3 Later Sir R. H. Sankey, 4 Letter, Aug. 8, 1848, 22, Eccl. ; Despatch, July 16, 1851, 42, CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1825 AND 1835 337 cattle, goats, and human beings. A wall was built here andat Kamptee in 1856,1 and during the next ten years at many-other stations in the Presidency. Until the cemeteries werethus protected, neither the Chaplains nor others who like tosee the burial-place of their friends and countrymen well kept,would do anything to improve their appearance. But sincethey have been protected many a cemetery has become one ofthe brightest spots in the cantonment. After the Mutiny, Nagpore became a more importantadministrative centre than it had been before. The civilrulers belonged to the Bengal establishment; the troops toMadras until 1868; and a Madras Chaplain ministered to thecommunity until that date. The first Chaplain appointed tothe separate charge of Nagpore w
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