Memorials
After the revolt was suppressed, the British dismantled Bibighar. They raised a memorial railing & cross at the site of the well in which the bodies of the British women & children had been dumped. The inhabitants of Cawnpore were forced to pay £30,000 for the creation of the memorial; this was partially punishment for not coming to the aid of the women and children in Bibighar.
The remains of a circular ridge of the well can still be seen at the Nana Rao Park, built after Indian independence. The British also erected the All Souls Memorial Church, in memory of the victims. An enclosed pavement outside the church marks the graves of over 70 British men captured and executed on 1 July 1857, four days after the Satichaura Ghat massacre. The marble gothic screen with "mournful seraph" was transferred to the churchyard of the All Souls Church after Indian independence in 1947. The memorial to the British victims was replaced with a bust of Tantya Tope. There is a plaque to Capt. W Morphy and Lieut. Thomas Mackinnon who were killed on November 28, 1857 in Lichfield Cathedral.
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