St. Andrew's Cathedral

Title
St. Andrew's Cathedral
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Image size: 9.1 x 14 cm
Accession No.
2000-06809

St Andrew's Church was designed by Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Macpherson, and remains one of the few surviving structures of English Gothic architecture in Singapore. Consecrated in 1861, a crew of convict labourers was largely responsible for the construction of the church, which is also the oldest Anglican church in Singapore today. Prior to the fall of Singapore during World War II, the cathedral and its grounds were employed as a field hospital; it was gazetted as a National Monument in 1973.