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All Saints' Church, Sehore, Bhopal, India, 1869. Creator: Unknown.

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All Saints' Church, Sehore, Bhopal, India, 1869. 'This church, which is built on a peculiar plan to provide against the heat and glare of the Indian climate, was designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby-Osborne, C.B., Political Resident in Bhopal, and built by native artisans, trained by himself - Beni Parshád Seth, a Hindoo banker in Sehore, having gratuitously given very material assistance in superintending its erection. The church is built of light red sandstone, the coigns being of dark basalt, and the style is Early English: it consists of a nave and chancel, north and south aisles, west porch, and a bell-tower...The aisles...resemble cloisters, externally presenting a series of open arches springing from dwarf columns...the aisles serving as verandahs and rendering the church very cool. The west porch is sufficiently large to admit of carriages driving into it, and such a convenience is a necessity in India. The entire cost of the building has been about £3500, of which sum £300 were given by the Indian Government, £250 by the Church Building Society of Calcutta, £125 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: the rest was raised by voluntary contributions. The station of Sehore is in the territory of the Begum of Bhopal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.

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