 The Chennai Corporation is situated in the Ripon Building in Chennai. Ripon Building is the seat of the Chennai Corporation in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This is a fine example of Indo-Saracenic style of architecture, a combination of three types of architectural styles - Gothic, Ionic and Corinthian. Download high resolution version (1280x960, 357 KB)Corporation of Chennai building, photo taken by Frederik Questier. ...
Download high resolution version (1280x960, 357 KB)Corporation of Chennai building, photo taken by Frederik Questier. ...
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The Chennai Corporation is situated in the Ripon Building in Chennai. ...
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Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
Indo-Saracenic was a style of architecture used by British architects in the late 19th century in India. ...
Königsberg Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ...
Architects first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and...
The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...
The Ripon Building is white in colour and is located near the Central station in Chennai. Commissioned in 1913, it was built by a builder named Loganatha Mudaliar. the Building took four years to build at a cost of 750,000 Rupees. Ripon building was named after Lord Ripon, Governer-General of British India and the Father of local self-government. Earl of Minto, the then Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation on December 12, 1909. George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (24 October 1827 - 9 July 1909) was a British politician who served in every Liberal cabinet from 1861 until his death forty-eight years later. ...
In 1885, as Middletons chief of staff Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, KG, PC, 4th Earl of Minto (June 9, 1845 – March 1, 1914), known between 1859 and 1891 as Viscount Melgund, was an English politician, Governor General of Canada, and Viceroy of India. ...
The Municipal Corporation of Madras, after functioning from several other places, settled at Ripon building in 1913, with P.L. Moore as the President of the Municipal Corporation at the time of the inauguration.
Building details The building is rectangular is 85 metres long and 32 metres wide. The first of its three floors offers about 2,800 square metres of space. Its central tower is 43 metres tall and has a clock 2.5 metres in diameter.
The walls were constructed with stock bricks, set and plastered with lime mortar. The roofs are supported with teak wood joists. The original flooring of the ground floor was Cuddapah Slate. this has now been replaced with marble. One of the main attractions of the building is the Westminister Quarter chiming clock. This was installed by Oakes and Co. in 1913. The clock has a mechanical key system, which is wound every day. There are a total of 4 bells, which were cast by Gillet and Johnston in 1913. The Westminster Quarters is the most common name for a melody used by a set of clock bells to strike the hour. ...
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