St. Paul's Church, Mangaluru

St. Paul's Church stands at the south-west corner of Nehru Maidan (once the Central Maidan) in Mangaluru, beside the fish market, bus stand and State Bank of India. It was the first Protestant church in the South Kanara region. After the British took Mangalore in 1799 they kept a garrison here, reinforced after the Amara Sullia rebellion of 1837, and in 1841 the garrison chaplain asked the Madras government for a church. Built with prison labour on a half-acre plot at Fort St Sebastian for ₹7,215, it was consecrated by Bishop George Spencer of Madras on 5 January 1843.

The interior, 57 by 25 feet, seats about 100. A tower was added during repairs in 1897, with a two-faced clock made at the Basel Mission workshop in Mangalore that still keeps good time; since the Hampankatta clock tower was pulled down, it is the city's only clock tower. The church joined the Church of South India in 1947. Its cemetery on Old Kent Road holds East India Company officers, among them Brigadier General John Carnac, who died in 1800.