India 2015 - Thirumal Nayak Palace Part 3

This is the last of the 3 part blog on the Thirumal Nayak Palace in Srivilliputtur.

The Audience Chamber
This is the grander chamber of the two. It has a pretty cool vaulted ceiling and a graded, rectangular-shaped dome.

The vaulted ceiling.
A symbol commemorating Queen Victoria is on the left side of this picture. See Part 1 for a full picture.

Looking up towards the ceiling in the audience chamber.

A picture depicting how the palace used to look.
The audience chamber is directly under the rectangular shaped roof.

In the center of the chamber there is a small prison and a witness box that were used by the British and Indian courts.

The witness box and prison. 

A farther view of the chamber showing the witness box and part of the prison.

 The chamber is supported by 10 pillars. Here is a view of the space in between the pillars and the wall.

This picture was taken just behind the prison.

I decided to write about this less-known palace in Srivilliputtur to show that buildings get repurposed and continuously evolve. In this particular case, the Archeological Society of India deemed this building to be a historically significant one back in the 1920s but because it was still being used by the courts, proper care and maintenance could not be done until the courts moved to a different location. I am glad that in a country as old as India there is still some importance to preserve history but I can only wonder how many such buildings have been ruined in a rush to the future.