completion, in 1860, of Christ Church,[1] the Services of the Church of England were held in this building. The Rev. W. W. Phelps was Chaplain.
On Lord Canning’s second visit to Lucknow, he attended Sunday Service in this building.
11—NUR-BAKHSH KOTHI.
Nur-bakhsh (light-giving) Kothi was built by Aga Mir, the Prime Minister of King Gazi-ud-din Haidar. Aga Mir having incurred the displeasure of King Nasir-ud-din Haidar, who succeeded Gazi-ud-din, was forced to leave Lucknow, and his immoveable property, consisting of several palatial buildings, was confiscated (see page 122). When Mahomed Ali Shah came to the throne (1837) he presented the house to his son, Mirza Rafi-us-Shan, who lived in it up to the time of the Mutiny. It was from the top of this house that Sir Henry Havelock, in his advance to the relief, overlooked the enemy’s third line of defence and planned his way into the Residency. The building is now, and has been for many years, the residence of the Deputy Commissioner.
12.—MEMORIAL OF THE MASSACRE OF EUROPEAN CAPTIVES.
The space in front of the north-east gate of Kaiser Bagh is fraught with melancholy and solemn recollections. On this spot two separate parties of Europeans, one consisting of those sent in by the Dhowrera Raja (Miss Jackson,Mrs. Green, Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Carew, and Mr. J. Sulivan), on the 24th September, 1857, with the addition of some persons captured in the town, deserters from the Baillie Guard; and the other consisting of victims of the Mithowlie Raja’s gratitude and hospitality (Sir Mountstuart Jackson, Captain Patrick Orr, Lieutenant Burns. and Sergeant-Major Morton), on the 16th November, 1857, completed the tale of sickness, imprisonment and indignity,by suffering a cruel martyrdom. The Memorial has been erected to commemorate those massacres on the spot where they occurred. Both of them were chiefly owing to the fury of the defeated sepoys when they could no longer resist the advance of General Havelock and the Commander-in-Chief, but both were also instigated and encouraged by the leaders of the rebellion. One of these leaders, Raja. Jailal Singh, a man of large territorial possessions in Oudh and of great influence with the mutineers, followed the first party of prisoners to the fatal scene, and mounted one of the gates
- ↑ Christ Church was built from the design of General Hutchinson.
