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'''St Thomas' Mount'''  is  a small hillock situated eight miles south-west of [[Madras (City)|Madras]]. From 1774 it was the headquarters of the [[Madras Artillery]]
'''St Thomas' Mount'''  is  a small hillock situated eight miles south-west of [[Madras (City)|Madras]]. From 1774 it was the headquarters of the [[Madras Artillery]]. See also [[Little Mount]].
==Spelling variants==
St Thomas' Mount, St Thomas's Mount, St Thomas Mount, St. Thomas' Mount, St. Thomas’s Mount, St. Thomas Mount, Saint Thomas’s Mount
   
   
==Fibis resources==  
==Fibis resources==  
*FIBIS database: [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=123&s_id=127 St. Thomas’ Mount Portuguese Mission Church: Transcription of Baptism Registers 1751 – 1880]
*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=123&s_id=127 St. Thomas’ Mount Portuguese Mission Church: Transcription of Baptism Registers 1751 – 1880]
*"The Headquarters of the Madras Artillery at Saint Thomas’s Mount" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003)'']]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
*"The Headquarters of the Madras Artillery at Saint Thomas’s Mount" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003)'']]. FIBIS members may read this article online.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Mount  St. Thomas Mount] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Mount  St. Thomas Mount] Wikipedia (retrieved 8 May 2016)
*Blogs by Deepa:
**[http://deepalifeandtimes.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/hertiage-walk-garrison-church-chennai.html Heritage Walk: The Garrison Church, Chennai]  Sunday, 29 August  2010
**[http://deepalifeandtimes.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/heritage-walk-ascent-of-mount.html Heritage Walk: Ascent Up The Mount] Friday, 3 September 2010
**[http://deepalifeandtimes.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/heritage-walk-in-presence-of-apostle.html Heritage Walk: In The Presence Of The Apostle] Friday, 10 September 2010
*Photographs by flickrPrince on Flickr.com
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/prince_tigereye/5472595391/  St. Thomas Garrison Church]
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/prince_tigereye/5473189308/in/photostream/ St. Thomas Garrison Church: front view]
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/prince_tigereye/5472596053/in/photostream St. Thomas Garrison Church standing alone when viewed from the hills of St.Thomas Shrine]
*[http://www.mountwesleychurch.org/?pgid=history-of-the-church The CSI Wesley English Church at the foot of St. Thomas Mount (once known as the Wesleyan Chapel)]
*[http://www.mountwesleychurch.org/?pgid=history-of-the-church The CSI Wesley English Church at the foot of St. Thomas Mount (once known as the Wesleyan Chapel)]
*Church of Our Lady of Expectations also known as the  Church of our Lady of the Mount, or Mount St Thomas Church
*Church of Our Lady of Expectations also known as the  Church of our Lady of the Mount, or Mount St Thomas Church
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*St Thomas’ Mount  in 1798-1799 is briefly mentioned on [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA99  page 99] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA112 page 112] ''A Voyage To India'' by Rev James Cordiner  1820 Google Books .
*St Thomas’ Mount  in 1798-1799 is briefly mentioned on [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA99  page 99] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA112 page 112] ''A Voyage To India'' by Rev James Cordiner  1820 Google Books .
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA42 St. Thomas’s Mount] page 42 The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847 Google Books The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA42 St. Thomas’s Mount] page 42 The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847 Google Books The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe02penn#page/278/mode/2up St. Thomas’, St. Thomas’ Mount], page 279, ''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras: Volume 2 : 1805 to 1835'' by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/406/mode/2up St. Thomas’ Mount] page  407 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe02penn#page/278/mode/2up St. Thomas’, St. Thomas’ Mount], page 279, ''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras: Volume 2 : 1805 to 1835'' by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org


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[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Madras Presidency]] [[Category:Locations]]
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Latest revision as of 08:19, 20 December 2020

St Thomas' Mount
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 12.99506°N, 80.19955°E
Altitude: 11 m (34 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: St. Thomas Mount
State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Country: India
Transport links

St Thomas' Mount is a small hillock situated eight miles south-west of Madras. From 1774 it was the headquarters of the Madras Artillery. See also Little Mount.

Fibis resources

External links

Historical books online

  • "Saint Thomas’s Mount" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 21, page 387.
  • St Thomas’ Mount in 1798-1799 is briefly mentioned on page 99 and page 112 A Voyage To India by Rev James Cordiner 1820 Google Books .
  • St. Thomas’s Mount page 42 The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847 Google Books The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
  • St. Thomas’ Mount page 407 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
  • St. Thomas’, St. Thomas’ Mount, page 279, The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras: Volume 2 : 1805 to 1835 by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org