St Andrew's Cathedral

This guide to St Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore begins on the morning of 15 February 1942, when General Arthur Percival knelt here for communion hours before a fateful walk across the city. It traces how the Gothic nave became an emergency wartime hospital, and reaches back further to the church's earlier incarnation, struck twice by lightning, and its 1855 rebuilding by convict labourers under engineer John McNair. Listen for the details of the plaster recipe that still coats its walls.