The first prominent church in India to utilize the Gibbs precedent was St John's,

Kolkata, constructed by Lieutenant James Agg in the year 1787 at the heart of the
old city. Although the spire was not built as Agg wanted, it was widely admired and
copied in other parts of India. The closely-located Scottish Kirk of St Andrew's is
a better rendition, and similar examples can be found in several cantonments and
stations of upper India at Agra, Allahabadand Varanasi. The best monuments of
British in India are the St Georges Cathedral and St Andrew's Kirk at Chennai
(Madras). Both St George's and St Andrew's are sophisticated essays in the Baroque
style, distinguished designs which owe a great deal to the structural ingenuity of
the military engineer who built them, Thomas Fiott de Havilland. St James's Church
in Delhi was designed by Colonel Robert Smith and constructed between 1828 and 1835
in memory of the famous Colonel James Skinner in fulfillment of a vow he made when
he was wounded on the battlefield. The church was designed on a Greek cross plan
and crowned by a Baroque dome, with each arm terminated by a Doric portico, but
such exercises remained the exception rather than the rule.