CSI St. Mary's Church
Fortress-like seventeenth-century Anglican church with bomb-proof vaulted roof and four-foot walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Mary's Church inside Fort St George in Chennai starts on Lady Day in sixteen seventy-eight, when work began on a house of prayer drawn up not by an architect but by the fort's master gunner. It follows the walls, the vaulted roof and the missing timber, and the eighteenth-century sieges when the sanctuary took on very different jobs. Best heard standing in the nave, looking up at the curve overhead.
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