Esplanade In 1813, placed on Calcutta's Esplanade, a new Town Hall was constructed and placed in service. Colonel John Garstin (1756-1820). Chief Engineer of Bengal, designed a purely Palladian structure with no local features to moderate the severities of Bengal's climate. In 1818, Esplanade underwent some significant overhaul. St. Andrews Church Within the period of 1815 to 1818, architectural developments of Calcutta under Britishers saw a sweeping escalation, overwhelming as they were in their work. The Presbyterian congregation of Calcutta constructed St. Andrews Church within this time. It possessed many resemblances with St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. The structure proved to have a more coherent expression of classical details than Calcutta's St. John's Church. Greek Temple Style In British Architecture In the years of 1831 to 1837, the British East India Company builds a new mint in Calcutta for the storage of specie and the minting of new coins. It took the appearance of a classic Greek temple. The years of 1839 to 1847, witnessed Calcutta's architectural developments create history, when St. Paul s Cathedral represented the first cathedral built in Britain's overseas empire. Major-General William Forbes (1796-1855) of the Bengal Engineers provided its mixed Classical and Gothic design. Later the cathedral added some stained glass, executed by Edward Burne-Jones in memory of Lord Mayo (1822-1872), Viceroy of India, who was assassinated in the Andaman Islands and a statue by Francis Chantrey of Bishop Heber (1783-1826), the second Bishop of Calcutta. |