Tower of the Church of St. Augustine Goa

This tower, also on the Holy Hill, has four storeys with an arch in each.It is built of laterite and evidence of lime plaster is visible.Colossal in size, nearly 46 m high, this tower was meant to serve as a belfry and formed part of the facede of the Church of St.Augustine, which was facing west. The church is now in ruins. There were eight richly adorned chapels and four althars, and a convent with numerous  cells and artistic columns attached to the church.

The tower and the church itself, were built in 1602 by  the Augustinian friars who arrived in Goa in 1587. With the religious suppression in 1835, the Augustinians deserted the church and the convent. The latter was used for some time by the charitable institution of the Misericordia. The buildings  fell into neglect resulting in the collapse of the vault on 8 September 1842.The Government appropriated the property,selling the materials the following year.The half of the tower fell in 1931 and some more parts of it collapsed in 1938.