Title
View of private residences and the St. Andrew's Cathedral
Year/Period
Late 19th century
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Image size: 8.9 x 13.7 cm
Accession No.
2000-06830
Collection of
The buildings on the left of the picture later made way for the opulent Grand Hotel de l’Europe circa 1900. The hotel was subsequently demolished to to make way for the construction of the Supreme Court building which opened in 1939. The unmistakable steeple on the right belongs to St Andrew's Cathedral, which was designed by Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Macpherson. The church 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.
