St Andrew's Church, Egmore

St Andrew's Church in Egmore, Chennai, was built for the city's Scottish community: work began on 6 April 1818 and it was consecrated in 1821, making it one of the oldest churches in Madras. Two officers of the Madras Engineers, Colonel James Caldwell and Major Thomas de Havilland, designed it after London's St Martin-in-the-Fields; with St George's Church in Dublin, it is considered one of that church's finest stylistic descendants. The Kirk remains in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition.

The church's main body is circular, 24.5 m across, with rectangular compartments to east and west. Sixteen fluted Corinthian columns support a shallow masonry dome, painted deep blue with golden stars; its brick frame rests on an annular arch and is filled with pottery cones, and the blue is made from crushed sea shells mixed with lapis lazuli. Richly coloured stained glass glows above the main altar, and a green and gold pipe organ from England, installed in 1883, dominates the altar.