THE CATHEDRAL-CHURCH.
We are told that the site occupied by this church
was expressly reserved in 1823 y Sir Stamford Raffles
For a church, and its poqition is unequalled amongst the
G'zthedrals and Churches i~ the East, standing as it does
on 2n opEn sea-front and Echg surrounded by an ample
churchyard which mizht almost be dignified with the
name of la close. U
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The style is early English, 13th Oentury, and the
building consists of a nave with north and south aisles, f?
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crossed by a transept, providing side porches. (North
Porch converted into Chapter House-1922). Attached to
the rhancel is an apse of semi-diagonal form, containing
three stained glass windows, memorials, erected by public
subscription, to Sir Stamford RafFles, the founder of the
Colony; bo J. Crawford, Esquire, Resident of Singapore
from 1823 to 1826, and the third to General Butterworth,
Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1843 to 1855.
The principal entrance is by the West: door-way
benezth the groined vaults of the tower, which is divided
into organ and bedl lofts, and the whole sumounted
by a simple spire without lights. The mouldings throughout
the building are very plain but carefully wrought.
The organ gallery, erected subsequently to the met of
bhe building, by private subscription, possesses the only