St Thomas' Mount
| 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 |
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St Thomas' Mount is a small hillock situated eight miles south-west of Madras. From 1774 it was the headquarters of the Madras Artillery
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 database: 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 Journal Number 10 (Autumn 2003). FIBIS members may read this article online.
External links
- St. Thomas Mount Wikipedia
- Blogs by Deepa:
- Heritage Walk: The Garrison Church, Chennai Sunday, 29 August 2010
- Heritage Walk: Ascent Up The Mount Friday, 3 September 2010
- Heritage Walk: In The Presence Of The Apostle Friday, 10 September 2010
- Photographs by flickrPrince on Flickr.com
- 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
- "Images from the past" by Hector Choksi December 16, 2007 tribuneindia.com
- "If Stones Could Speak" by Vishwas R. Gaitonde 09 January 2014 praguerevue.com. On the summit of the hill stands a church that is a hybrid of Armenian and Portuguese architecture
- "View from a few floors above" by Sudhish Kamath July 17, 2012 Chennai The Hindu
- "Man who mapped India sits forgotten under tree" by M T Saju June 10, 2013 Times of India. William Lambton, a British soldier and geographer launched his work for the Great Trigonometrical Survey on top of St Thomas Mount.
- RAF St Thomas Mount rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
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’, 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
