The St Mary’s Cemetery on the Island is one of the city’s most historic precincts. Located in the curve of the Cooum, this was where the British buried their dead from the 1750s. Many of the colonials who left their mark on the city, and their family members are interred here. Administered by the Church of St Mary’s in the Fort, the cemetery has suffered owing to difficulties in watching over such a vast tract of land in a very busy area. In recent years, the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, BACSA, has been doing a lot of restoration work here, in association with Nilesh Thakkar and his Jeernodhar Conservators. The first step has been the creation of a proper walkway around a part of the cemetery. The OLD was taken in 2017 and the NEW, earlier this year.
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