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MADRAS


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•CHENNAI ARCHITECTURE IS A CONFLUENCE OF

MANY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES.• FROM ANCIENT DRAVIDIAN TEMPLES BUILT BY THE PALLAVAS, TO THE INDO-SARACENIC STYLE OF THE COLONIAL ERA, TO 20THCENTURY STEEL AND CHROME OF SKYSCRAPERS.•CHENNAI HAS A COLONIAL CORE IN THE PORT AREA,SURROUNDED BY PROGRESSIVELY NEWER AREAS AS ONE TRAVELS AWAY FROM THE PORT, PUNCTUATED WITHOLD TEMPLES, CHURCHES AND MOSQUES.

•INDO-SARACENIC AND COLONIAL STYLE

• THE BRITISH INFLUENCE IN THE FORM OF OLD CATHEDRALS AND

THE MIX OF HINDU,ISLAMIC AND GOTHIC STYLES THAT RESULTEDIN THE INDO-SARACENIC STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE•EXAMPLESFORT ST GEORGE , ST.MARY!S CHURCH , SENATEHOUSE , MADRAS MUSEUM THEATRE , NATIONAL ART GALLERY ,LAW COURT

MADRAS


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ST.GEORGE’S

FORT

•BUILT IN "#$%

•ARCHITECTS EDWARDFOULE , WILLIAMDIXON

•LOCATION SOUTHEAST COROMANDELCOAST OF INDIA,BUILT

WITH STAR SHAPEDBASTONS TONORTH,SOUTH ANDWEST.

ELEVATION


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"&'0M (&2'0FT) INLENGTH FROM NORTH TOSOUTH.WALLS LOW HEIGHTED HAD PARAPETS WITHOPEN EMBRASURESENTRANCE TO FORT

THROUGH A WATER GATESET INTO EAST WALL.

GOVERNMENT OFFICES ,ARSENAL AND CHURCHWERE WITHIN WALLS. BLACK CHARNOCKITE

PILLARS OF THE BUILDING

BLACK CHARNOCKITE PILLARS

CHARACTERISTICS :


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INTERIORS

USE OF BOX WINDOWS

ARCHES


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PLAN OF ST.GEORGE’S FORT


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ST.MARY’S CHURCH

EXCHANGE

HALL

FLAG

POST

MODEL – ST.GEORGE’S FORT


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COMPLETED IN "#)0

ARCHITECT EDWARD FOULE

EARLIEST BRITISH BUILDING

STILL EXISTING IN INDIA

WAS THE FIRST ANGLICANCHURCH ON INDIANSUBCONTUNENTWHICH SHOWS

MOVEMENT OF ROMANCATHOLIC CHURCH TOANGLICAN CHURCH

ARY’S CHURCH, FORT S.GEORG

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• CHARACTERISTICS

:

INTERNAL DIMENSIONS OF THEBUILDING ARE )# FEET BY '#FEET

SIMPLE TWO AISLED CHURCHWITH GALLERY AT ONE END

GALLERY RESTS ON BURMA TEAK PILLARS WITH INTRICATECARVINGS

THE NAVE PROTRUDING ABOUT"2 FEET FURTHER THAN THEAISLE

THE $ FEET THICK WALLS

SEPARATE THE NAVE FROM THEAISLES

ENTRANCE


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BURMA TEAK PILLARS WITHINTRICATE CARVINGS

LARGE OPENINGS


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S.ANDREW’S

PRESBYTERAN CHURCH

BUILT IN ")2"

ARCHITECTS THOMAS DE HAVILLAND

AND CALDWELL

DEVELOPED FROMANOTHER OF GIBB!SPUBLISHED DESIGNS

FOR S, MARTIN!S

GEORGIAN AND NEOCLASSICALARCHITECTURE.


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INSPIRATIONST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH IN

LONDON

ST.MARTIN ST.ANDREWS


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CIRCULAR PLAN FORM CIRCULAR SPACE 2&.'M ()2FT* DIAMETERDEFINED RING OF SPLENDID "# CORINTHIAN

CIRCULAR COLUMNS ('0 M HIGH*BELOW A SAUCERDOME WITH A DIAMETER 0F '2 METERS.AISLES SURROUND THE CENTRAL CYLINDRICALVOLUME OUTSIDE THE COLONNADE THE CHURCH TOWER PROVIDED AT THE FRONT END TOWER RISES FROM THE RECTANGULARCOMPARTMENT INKING THE CIRCULAR NAVE WITH EASTPORTICOCIRCULAR NAVE INSIDE, SUPPORTED BY "# FLUTEDCORINTHIAN PILLARSFOUNDATION OF THE STRUCTURE HAS BEEN LAID BYDIGGING ABOUT "'0 WELLS UNDERNEATHSERIES OF "'0 WELLS MADE FROM CURVED BRICKS

WERE SUNK FROM &-"' METERS ("$-&% FEET*

CHARACTERSTICS

:


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PLAN OF ST.ANDREW’S CHURCH

!." METRES


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NEO CLASSICAL COLUMNS IN THE PORTICOCHURCH INTERIORS ARE COVERED WITH RICH MAHOGANY WOODWORK.FLOOR OF THE CHURCH PROVIDED WITH A CHEQUE PATTERNWHITE AND BLACK MARBLE WALLS OF THE CHURCH ARE BOUNTEOUSLY DECORATEDDOME PAINTED WITH BLUE LAPIS LA+ULI WITH STARSREPRESENTING A CONSTELLATION SEEN FROM SCOTTISH SKIES THE ARCHED STAINED GLASS WINDOWS ABOVE THE ALTAR THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING IS ACCESSIBLE BY A NARROW

STAIRWAY THE BEST FEATURES OF THE CHURCH IS THE LIME STUCCO WORK


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STAINED GLASS WINDOW

CORINTHIAN COLUMN


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BUILT IN ")"#

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY CAPTAIN AMES CALDWELLAND THOMAS FRIOTT DE HAVILLAND INSPIRED FROM ST.MARTIN-IN THE-FIELDS ("2#*, LONDON AND AMES GIBB!S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE("2)*

S.GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL


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INSPIRATIONST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH IN

LONDON

ST.MARTIN

ST.GEORGE CATHEDRAL


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BALUSTRADED PORTICO AT THE WEST END WITH ITSCOUPLED IONIC COLUMNS AND THEIR SIMPLEREFLECTIONS IN THE SHALLOWER PORTICOES OF THENORTH AND SOUTH SIDE ORDER REPEATED AROUND THE DRUM OF THE TOWER ABOVE THE TUSCAN DORIC OF THERUSTICATED SECOND STORY AND IN THE INTERIORSCOLONNADES OF THE CHURCH BUILDING GIVES MONOLITHIC IMPRESSION

SMOOTHLY FINISHED CHUNAM RENDERING


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THE ORIGINAL MODESTPORTUGUESE EFFORT WASREPLACED BY THE BRITISH.

THIS CHURCH HAS ABEAUTIFUL GOTHIC STRUCTURE

ST. THOMAS BASILICA


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CHARACTERSTIC

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A CENTRAL HALL ON THE GROUND FLOOR,"$0 FEET LONG, ') FEET BROAD AND '& FEETHIGH

THE CORRIDORS SUPPORTED BY SIX MASSIVESTONE PILLARS ON EITHER SIDE

STONE ARCHES BETWEEN THE PILLARS, WITH THE FOUR TOWERS RISING HIGH AT THECORNERS OF THE BUILDING, SURMOUNTED BYEXQUISITELY SHAPED DOMES (PAINTED INDIFFERENT COLOURS*

MASSIVE PILLARS OB THE CORRIDORS ANDARCHES OINING THE VARIOUS PILLARS.

STAINED GLASS USED

MATERIALS RED BRICK STONES, LIMEMORTAR FOR PLASTERING

COLOURED DOMES

COLOURED STAINED


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ENTRANCES ON ALL THE SIDES

THE MAIN ENTRANCE AT THE

NORTH, LEADS TO THECONVOCATION HALL

A CORRESPONDING ENTRANCE, IN THE SOUTH, LEADS TO THE ROOMSON THE SOUTHERN WING

THERE ARE TWO ENTRANCES ON THE EASTERN WING OF THECONVOCATION HALL AND TWOCORRESPONDING ENTRANCES ON THE WEST.

ELEGANTLY CONSTRUCTEDPORTICOS ADORN THE FRONTAGE .

A PARAPET SURROUNDS EACH OF THESE PORTICOS, AT THE CORNER OF

WHICH APPEARS A DECORATED DOME

WIDE ENTRANCES

INTERIORS


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RESEMBLANCELAHORE BUILDING


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SEATING ARRRANGEMENT OF SENATEHOUSE CONVOCATION HALL


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GOVERNMENT HOUSE

•BUILT IN ")00

•DESIGNED BY OHN GOLDINGHAM•NOW DEMOLISHED


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•CHARACTERSTICS: THREE STOREYS GENERALLY DEEP COLONNADED VERANDAHS CARRIED ON IRREGULARLY PLACEDCOUPLED TUSCAN COLUMNS.FLAT TOPSGARDEN HOUSES SET IN LARGE LANDSCAPED COMPOUNDSUPERIMPOSED ARCADED LOGGIASMAOR SPACES WERE ARTICULATED WITH DORIC AND IONIC ORDERS


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BUILT IN ")02ARCHITECT OHN

GOLDHINGAM

CHARACTERSTICSFREE STANDING OCTASTYLE TUSCAN TEMPLERISING PLOT OF SINGLESTOREY TERRACE.ARCADED VERANDAH WITHPILASTERS RISING TO AFRIE+E BALUSTRADE ABOVE

WAS ADDED LATER.FACED IN A WHITE CHUNAMRENDERING SHARPDETAILING OF CLASSICALBUILDINGS

DORIC COLUMNS USED.

BANQUETING HALL

LAW COURTS


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LAW COURTS

CHARACTERSTICS :SPLENDID RENDE+VOUS OF MUSLIM DOMES CANOPIED BALCONIES, ARCADED VERANDAHS ALL TOPPED OFF WITH A MINARET ATWHOSE PINNACLE IS A BULBOUS DOME

BUILT IN ")%2ARCHITECTURAL STYLE- INDO-SARACENIC STYLE


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GOVERNMENT MUSEUM

THE MUSEUM COMPLEXCONSISTING OF SIX BUILDINGS GALLERIES COVERS AN

AREA OF AROUND "#.2' ACRES(##,000 M* OF LAND

MANY BUILDINGS IN THEPREMISES SOME OF THEM ARE

MUSEUM THEATRE(2* NATIONAL ARTGALLERY('* CONNEMARA PUBLICLIBRARY

ALSO CALLED MADRASMUSEUM

ESTABLISHED IN ")'"


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MADRAS MUSEUM THEATRE OPENED IN ")%#.

INDO-SARACENIC IN STYLE IT HAS BEEN AMONG THE GRANDSTRUCTURES BUILT BY THE BRITISH IN MADRAS DURING THELATE "%TH CENTURY.INSPIRED BY CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE BY OHN NASH

MADRAS MUSEUM

THEATRE


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CHARACTERSTICS :

THE STRUCTURE HAS A HIGH PLINTH AND IS ACCESSED THROUGH A TALL FLIGHT OF STAIRS.

IT IS PRIMARILY A SEMICIRCULAR STRUCTURE WITH ARECTANGULAR WING AT THE REAR THE MAIN HALL IS ACCESSED THROUGH A VERANDAH WITH A ROW OF COLUMNS LINKED BY

SEMICIRCULAR ARCHES.

THE WALLS AND COLUMNS ARE RICHLY EMBELLISHED WITHFLORAL AND GEOMETRIC DESIGNS.

IT HAS AROUND #00 SEATS AND A COMMODIOUS STAGE AND

THE ACTORS DRESSING ROOMS ADOIN THIS STAGE.


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THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY IN THEMUSEUM COMPLEX CAN BE CONSIDERED THECITY!S FIRST EXHIBITION GALLERY. ALSOKNOWN AS VICTORIA MEMORIAL EARILER

BUILT IN "%0

REPRESENTS A TYPICAL INDO-SARACENICSTRUCTURE

BUILT IN MUGHAL-AIPURI STYLE WITH APINK SANDSTONE FAADE, CHENNAIPOLISHED CEMENT FINISH INSIDE ANDMARBLE FLOORING

IT WAS DESIGNED BY HENRY IRWIN

NATIONAL ART GALLERY


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CONNEMARA PUBLIC

LIBRARY


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REFERENCESB168 J8I13/ 13?131


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THAN# YOU

SUBMITTED BY RACHITA NOVAL ("#*

RAITHA RAU("*

RUBY AIN (")*

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