Samipya 2007 Vol 24 Ank 01 02

Author(s): R P Mehta, R T Savalia
Publisher: Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Adhyayan Sanshodhan Vidyabhavan

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Northern wall contains 5 twin-windows while souther wall contains 4 twin windows. Two room are projected on each wall of the nave in axial line. The porch is to west. It is opened from north and south but western side is covered with perforated lattice with gcometrical and flora-founa designs. The main door is made of wood and set it an arched fram. A rose-window is arranged on the facade under the belfry. Six wooden arches support the double sloping roof above the nave. These arches are supported by six wooden pilasters with cornthian capitals. The roof above-the altar is single sloping type. It is remarkable that there is not a single cross raised on the roof, not even on the belfry. They might have fallen. The plan is in the form of a cross. Architectural Characters :
Some architectural characters of these charches are described as under :
(1) All churches are built in Gothic style. except Christ church which is built in Elizabethan style. (2) They all are built in brick. (3) They all face to west. (4) All have belfry on the western top of the nave. (5) Crosses are four types : Latin Cross, Greek Cross, Wheel cross, and Swinnerton cross. (6) Only the St. George's Church contain the stained-glass window which is the main feature of European Churches.
Foot-notes 1. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics Vol. II, New York, 1910, p. 617-623;
The Oxford English Dictonary, Vol. II, p. 403
Boyd, Robin, Church History of Gujarat, Madras, 1981, p. 28 3. Bombay Gazatteer, Vol. V, p. 279 4. Vargheese Paul, S.J. (E.d.) 'Ahmedabad Mission Golden Jubille Suvenir, 1934
1981, Ahmedabad, 1984, p. 172
Bombay Gazatter, Vol. V, p. 279 6. Boyd Robin, op. cit., p. 26 7. Ibid., p. 28 8. Vargheese Paul, op. cit., p. 174 10. Boyed Robin in his 'Church History of Gujarat', p. 26 gives the year of the
conscecration 1882. But it is not correct. The inscription about conscecration itself
records the year 1881. 11. Vargheese Paul, op.cit., p. 28 12. Boyd, Robin, op.cit., p. 28
The Churches of Ahmedabad built during the British Period
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