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Image details : A hand-coloured print of Bishop's College, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. Bishop's College, was established in the early 1820s by the first Bishop of Calcutta, Thomas Middleton, as part of a scheme for a theological college along the lines of that at Cambridge. It contained a chapel, houses, library and lecture rooms. It later became the Calcutta Engineering College. Source : British Library

This is a delightful photograph. These buildings would not look out of place in an Oxford quod ~ although their design does contain one or two Asiatic flourishes (such as the arched doorway on the left). Many of the schools, colleges and universities that the British built in India during the 19th century are of interest architecturally (20th century institutions tended to be more 'functional' and thus less attractive)~ they are often fine examples of contemporary Victorian fashions or an unusual mixture of styles, the palladian blended with the neo-Moghul , Indo-Saracenic etc.etc or are in some other way noteworthy. Of course, the choice of styles, in many ways, was intended to reflect, symbolically, some deeper aspect of the Imperial ethos. Here is a photograph of the magnificent perpendicular centre-piece of Queen's College, Varanasi: http://www.evaranasi.com/files/images/019PHO0000017S3U00027000%5BSVC2%5D.preview.jpg Designed by one Major Kittoe of the Bengal Engineers and built in 1847 ~ this is as classic an example of the Victorian neo-gothic that you will find anywhere in the world. Here is a photograph of St. John's College, Agra: http://www.everywheremag.com/photos/30278 Designed by the famous architect, Swinton Jacob ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Swinton_Jacob ) this astonishing building, with it's Islamic-style domes, pillars and lintels everywhere, is, of course, capped with a Christian cross atop the highest pinnacle !

@ Julian: St John's at Agra is truly a majestic building. Many thanks for posting the link It brought back memories of my college many years ago in Agra. The central dome which has a cross finial is unique. Sir Swinton Jacob was the state architect of Jaipur state. Albert Hall (named after Prince Albert , consort of Queen Victoria) museum in Jaipur was designed by him among several other majestic buildings, quite a few in the indo-Saracenic style, characterstic of the period. In fact my parental house in Jaipur is situated on Jacob Road.