Carved pillar at the entrance to the Temple at [Patteshvara] Perur, near Coimbatore. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/5 (4). See Robert Sewell's 'Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras' (vol I, Madras, 1882), p. 217: '3 miles south-west of Coimbatore...A richly carved temple about 200 years old, built round a small but far older shri...
Reverse side of the third carved pillar in the central aisle of the [Patteshvara] Temple at Perur, near Coimbatore. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of Photo 212/5 (8), which is in better condition. The negative had begun to degenerate by the time this later print was made, and the emulsion has lifted off the glass in places.