St Thomas' Mount

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
  • St. Thomas Garrison Church
  • St. Thomas Garrison Church: front view
  • St. Thomas Garrison Church standing alone when viewed from the hills of St.Thomas Shrine
• The CSI Wesley English Church at the foot of St. Thomas Mount (once known as the Wesleyan Chapel)

Historical books online

• "Saint Thomas’s Mount" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 21, page 387.
• 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