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{{Locations_Infobox|presidency= [[Madras]]|image=|coordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=12.99506,80.19955&z=13&t=h&hl=en 12.99506°N, 80.19955°E]|altitude=11 m (34 ft)|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Mount St. Thomas Mount] |stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu Tamil Nadu]|country=India|transport= }} '''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]]==Spelling variants== St Thomas' Mount, St Thomas's Mount, St Thomas Mount, St. Thomas' See also [[Little Mount, St]]. Thomas’s Mount, St. Thomas Mount, Saint Thomas’s Mount
==Fibis resources==
*FIBIS database: [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/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.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Mount St. Thomas Mount] Wikipedia*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](retrieved 8 May 2016)
*[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
**[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071216/spectrum/main6.htm "Images from the past"] by Hector Choksi December 16, 2007 tribuneindia.com
**[http://praguerevue.com/ViewArticle?articleId=3579 "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
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/view-from-a-few-floors-above/article3649258.ece "View from a few floors above"] by Sudhish Kamath July 17, 2012 Chennai ''The Hindu''
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Man-who-mapped-India-sits-forgotten-under-tree/articleshow/20512569.cms "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.
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-S.htm#St%20Thomas%20Mount RAF St Thomas Mount] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_393.gif "Saint Thomas’s Mount"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 21'', page 387.
*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"
*[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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