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St. George's Cathedral, Chennai

St. George's Cathedral
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Side view of St. George's Cathedral
13°03′06″N 80°15′09″E / 13.0518°N 80.2525°E / 13.0518; 80.2525Coordinates: 13°03′06″N 80°15′09″E / 13.0518°N 80.2525°E / 13.0518; 80.2525
Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Country India
Denomination Church of South India
Previous denomination Church of England
Website www.csistgeorgescathedral.org
History
Dedication St. George
Consecrated 6 January 1816
Architecture
Status Cathedral
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Col. J. L. Caldwell
Architectural type Cathedral
Style Neoclassical
Completed 1815
Construction cost 57,225 Pagodas
Clergy
Bishop(s) Rt. Rev. J. George Stephen
Priest in charge Rev. Immanuel Devakadatcham
St. George's Cathedral
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Author H.S.S. Lawrence
Country India
Language English
Subject Church History
Publication date
2007
Media type Print (Booklet)
Pages 24 pp

St. George’s Cathedral is a Church of South India (previously "Church of England" and "Anglican") cathedral in Chennai, India. The cathedral was built in 1815. St. George’s occupies an important place in the history of Christianity in India, as the Church of South India was inaugurated here on September 27, 1947. The Cathedral was packed and the big pandal outside held over 2,000 people. It marked the breaking down of ecclesiastical barriers between Protestants of various traditions.

The architecture of St. George’s Cathedral is remarkable for its tall spire, pillars, marble statues, mural tablets and memorials inside. The Cathedral is a piece of architectural grandeur resting on a tier of steps. The Governors of Fort St. George and their families worshipped here as also the Viceroys when they visited Madras.

The Church was opened in 1815. It is stated that the church was completed by the people themselves with the aid of a lottery fund. It cost 41,709 pagodas and with the furniture, the organ and the architect’s commission increasing the cost to 57,225 pagodas. 1 Pagoda was equivalent to 3.50 Indian rupees.

The British East India Company's Senior Engineer Col. J. L. Caldwell designed the church, and his assistant Captain De Havilland finished the construction. The site with an advantageous location was called the Choultry Plain. Though the Presidency Chaplain conducted the services from 1815, it was on 6 January 1816, that the first Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, Rt. Rev. Thomas Fanshaw Middleton consecrated the church to “the service of God according to the use of the Church of England.


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