page_title: St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
section_title: Consecration as cathedral
hierarchical_section_title: St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore / History / Consecration as cathedral
caption_attribution_description: English: The interior of Saint Andrew's Cathedral
context_page_description: Saint Andrew's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Singapore. It is located near City Hall, Downtown Core, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district. It is the main Cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore and serves as the mother church of 27 parishes and more than 55 congregations. The church has existed on the site since 1836, although the current building was constructed in 1856–1861. The logo of the Cathedral is the St Andrew's Cross.
  2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the St Andrew's Church Mission, which was initiated in 1856.
context_section_description: In 1869, the church was transferred from the Diocese of Calcutta to the Diocese of Labuan and Sarawak.  In 1870, Archdeacon John Alleyne Beckles consecrated it as the Cathedral Church of the United Diocese.
  The Revere Bell was replaced by a chime of bells in 1889.  The Revere Bell is currently placed in the National Museum of Singapore. 
  The Cathedral is owned by the Synod of the Diocese of Singapore, and the first Anglican bishop, The Right Reverend J. Ferguson-Davie, was appointed in 1909.
  In 1942, shortly before the Fall of Singapore to the Japanese, the cathedral served as an emergency hospital.  A Memorial Hall dedicated to those who died in the Second World War was added in 1952.
  The north and south transepts of the cathedral was originally built as porches for carriages. Both transepts have been extended to provide halls, meeting rooms and offices: the North Transept in 1952, and the South Transept 1983.
  Saint Andrew's Cathedral was gazetted as a Singaporean national monument on 28 June 1973.
  A project to extend the building was initiated in 2003.  An archaeological excavation was conducted on its grounds in 2004 by the National University of Singapore before building commenced. The extension, called the Cathedral New Sanctuary, was completed in November 2005. It was largely built underground to comply with conservation guidelines for a gazetted national monument, and features a new worship hall within two underground levels of new floor space.
  The cathedral bells, cast in 1888 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, England, were originally hung as a chime of eight in the key of E-flat. These were designed to be hung for change ringing. However, contemporary surveys found that the tower had unsuitable foundations to support a swinging peal of bells, and they were hung dead for chiming via the Ellacombe system.
  In 2018, a further survey found that the tower was perfectly capable of withstanding change ringing, and a project was launched for them to be hung properly. The bells were taken out of the tower in November of that year for tuning and cleaning. The new ringing arrangement (a peal of twelve in D, with two semitones to allow lighter octaves) was also made by John Taylor & Co.  The first change ringing on the twelve took place on August 7 2019, and the bells were dedicated on Sunday 11 August.
caption: Nave of St Andrew's Cathedral
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