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. GPO
Kolkata’s General Post
Office is housed in this
building with its impressive
rotunda. Designed by
Walter Granville and built in
the 1860s, it stands on the
site of the old mud fort.
Locator Map
See Kolkata Map pp272–3

St Andrew’s Kirk
Consecrated in 1818,
the church has a
soaring steeple, a
FA I R L I E P L A C E
magnificent organ
and a beautifully
carved pulpit.
R O A D
S U B A S H LY O N S R A N G E
K O I L A G H AT S T R E E T

N E TA J I B B D B A G H N O R T H

S T R E E T

C O U N C I L H O U S E R E D C R O S S P L A C E O L D C O U R T H O U S E S T R E E T R N M U K H E R J I R O A D

B B D B A G H S O U T H

Old Currency House
. Writers’ Building
The hub of colonial India from 1777, this
imposing building with its Corinthian façade
derives its name from the “writers” (clerks) of
the East India Company who worked here.
Key The building used to house several state
Suggested route government offices, however, many of the
offices have shifted due to restoration work.
W AT E R L O O S T R E E T

View Across Lal Dighi
This small tank, fed by springs, was
the East India Company’s seat of
administration. Their courts of justice
and the churches for their Sunday
services were set up around.

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