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Consecrated in 1680 inside Fort St. George, this Anglican church is the oldest Anglican (Protestant) church in India and is said to be the oldest east of Suez; it is associated with Elihu Yale, whose gift helped found Yale University, and with Robert Clive, who married here.

A cenotaph at the northern end of the Marina, near Fort St. George, erected to commemorate soldiers of the Madras Presidency who died in the First World War. It later also honoured the dead of the Second World War and independent India's conflicts. Wreath-laying ceremonies are held here on national days.

Built by the English East India Company and completed around 1644, Fort St. George was the first English fortress in India and the nucleus around which the city of Madras (Chennai) grew. It still functions as a working seat of government, housing the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and Secretariat, alongside the Fort Museum and St. Mary's Church.

A large open recreation ground on 'the Island' between the Coovum river channels, near Fort St. George. Long used for exhibitions, fairs, circuses and public meetings, it is a traditional venue for the annual Island Grounds trade fair. It offers a spacious green expanse in the heart of the old city.

The Senate House is the ceremonial hall of the University of Madras at Chepauk, designed by Robert Chisholm and completed in 1879. A landmark of Madras's pioneering Indo-Saracenic architecture, it blends Byzantine, Rajput and South Indian motifs, and has been carefully restored in recent years after a long period of decay.

A statue on the Marina of Kannagi, the wronged heroine of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram, depicted holding aloft the anklet with which she confronted the Pandya king. Installed in 1968, it was controversially removed in 2001 and restored to the beach in 2006 after public pressure. It is a celebrated emblem of Tamil cultural pride.

An iconic bronze sculpture on the Marina by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury, installed on Republic Day 1959, showing four straining men heaving a rock to symbolise the dignity of labour. It is regarded as one of modern India's most powerful public sculptures and a symbol of the working class. It stands near the Labour Statue junction on the beach.

One of India's oldest colleges, tracing its origin to 1840, it moved to its landmark Indo-Saracenic building on the Marina in 1870. Alumni and faculty include Nobel laureates Sir C. V. Raman and S. Chandrasekhar and many national leaders. Its long seafront facade is an iconic part of the Marina skyline.

The former palace of the Nawab of the Carnatic (Arcot) at Chepauk, completed around 1768, it is widely regarded as one of the earliest Indo-Saracenic buildings in India; later occupied by government offices, it was partly damaged by a 2012 fire and has since undergone restoration.

The first statue erected on the Marina seafront, sculpted by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury and unveiled by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956. It depicts Gandhi striding forward as if on the Dandi Salt March. It has become a customary starting point for processions and protests in the city.

The samadhi of matinee idol and former Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran, built on the Marina in 1988 and later expanded to incorporate the Amma Memorial of J. Jayalalithaa. Adorned with sculptures and landscaped grounds, it is a major site of political pilgrimage. It adjoins the Anna Memorial on Kamarajar Salai.

The samadhi of C. N. Annadurai (Anna), founder of the DMK and former Chief Minister, built on the northern Marina at the spot of his 1969 cremation, whose funeral drew one of the largest crowds ever recorded. A black-marble platform and pavilion mark the site on Kamarajar Salai. It sits beside the MGR and Jayalalithaa memorials.