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Architecture of India
Bombay Town Hall
To the Gibbs formula, Colonel James Caldwell and Major Thomas de Havilland added side porches for St. George’s and study aedicules below the distinguished steeple. St. Andrew’s, with an elegant fluted Ionic order and a more purely classical steeple, is adventurous in following Gibb’s alternative scheme with circular nave. Contrary to the prevailing fashion, indeed unusual in its centralised plan, is Colonel James Skinner’s Greek cross church of St. James, Delhi, the dome of which distantly recalls such High Renaissance works as San Gallo’s Santa Maria di Loretto in Rome.
St. James, Delhi |
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Quite
different in its exceptional neo-classical gravitas is the Bombay Town
Hall of Colonel Thomas Cowper, Bombay engineers. It is hardly inferior to many
of the works of the masters of French neo-classicism. The Greek Doric Order of
its powerful temple-fronts doubtless came from the principal source of the
English Greek Revival, the work of Stuart and Revett, and the dramatically lit
staircase leads to a splendid Corinthian Hall worthy of a mature student of
Vitruvius Britannicus. 
Despite their
airy porticoes and slender steeples, the walled and pillared later colonial
churches, usually avoid the insubstantiality if not always the coarseness, of
detail characteristic of many secular works. St. Martin in the Fields was to be
an enduringly popular model. The most accomplished homage paid to it was
certainly in 
