1872

The two-nave church blessed

In 1872 the finished Holy Family Church was blessed — by Bishop Canoz, the parish's own history records. The district gazetteer sets the building down plainly: "two converging naves which meet in a common chancel." Auguste Jean called the plan an open compass: two naves splayed apart at their doors, drawing nearer, meeting at one shared sanctuary. The parish's history adds two octagonal towers of ninety-two feet, and vaults painted with dyes drawn from plants and trees.

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Pate 1917p. 406
The remedy finally adopted was the present handsome church, which was completed in 1872.
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Madras District Gazetteers: Tinnevelly, Vol. IMadras: Government Press, 1917

Published before 1930. In the public domain, and reproduced here in full.

What this source establishes

The single best external anchor on the whole site: a British government gazetteer recording that "the present handsome church… was completed in 1872", and describing the plan as "two converging naves which meet in a common chancel". No parish source is needed for either.