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===Buildings===
Buildings inside the fort include:
*St Peter's Church - the fort church built in 1828. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/4517308383/in/set-72157612613850222/ Photograph by Frederick Fiebig - St Peter's Church, Fort William, Calcutta, ca 1850] flickr.com
*St Patrick's - Catholic Chapel built in 1857
*Military Prison
*Governor's Residence - later used as the Soldier's Institute and the Garrison School
===Burial ground===
As a result of new construction in the Fort in the 1880s, the ‘old’ burial ground is no longer in existence, and some of the headstones were moved and are now mounted on the walls at South Park Cemetery. <ref>Evers, Maureen [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-11/1258770329 Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 21 November 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2015. The original advice was from Dr John Roberts.</ref> The ‘new burial ground is part of the military base and is closed to the public.<ref>Murphy, Sylvia [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-11/1258498545 Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 November 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2015</ref>
These burial grounds are different burial grounds to those at Bhowanipore Cemetery, the old (separate) part of which is known as the Military Burial Ground.
==External Links==
*Early plans of Fort William can be found by searching the French archive [[French#ANOM, previously CAOM|ANOM]]'s database [http://caom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/ulysse/sommaire?clear= Ulysse].
*This India List [http://archiverwww.rootswebcolumbia.ancestryedu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/fortwilliam/fortwilliam.html Images of Fort William] 'Indian Routes' Prof. Emerita Frances W. Pritchett, Columbia University*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000004042u00000000.html 1835 Watercolour: St Peter's Church, Fort William, Calcutta] British Library. Click to enlarge*[http://www.flickr.com/thphotos/photohistorytimeline/read4517308383/indiain/2009set-1172157612613850222/1258445224 thread] is about the Photograph by Frederick Fiebig - St Peter's Church, Fort William burial ground, Calcutta, c 1850] flickr.com*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/t/019pho0000897s1u00002000. html Photograph: The ‘new” burial ground is Dalhousie Barracks & part of the military base Staff Barracks, Fort William, [Calcutta<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1880s] British Library. Click to enlarge*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/dalhousie-barrack.html Postcard: Calcutta. Dalhousie Barrack Fort William] imagesofasia.com*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/galleryaccommodation01.htm Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and is closed Officers] King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Scroll down to the public. The ‘old’ burial ground is no longer in existencetwo images of Fort William, and some one of the headstones were moved and are now mounted on the walls at South Park Cemeterywhich refer to “Queen's Barracks, St.Peter's Barracks, Dalhousie Barracks”
===Historical books online===
*''Indian Records Series: Old Fort William in Bengal'' by CR Wilson Archive.org 1906 [http://www.archive.org/stream/oldfortwilliami00wilsgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/oldfortwilliami00unkngoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 2]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA284 Fort William], page 284 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
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