Former Stamford Girls’ School & Gan Eng Seng School Former Tao Nan School St Patrick’s School Former St Anthony’s Convent St Patrick’s School The Chinese High School Alsagoff Arab School HERITAGE SCHOOLS Former Tanjong Katong Girls School Former Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) Former Yock Eng High School Former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Former Tao Nan School Former Fairfield Girls’ School The Chinese High School Former Chui Eng Free School Chong-Wen Ge Former Hong Wen School Former St Joseph’s Institution Former Chong Cheng Boys’ School / Chong Pun Girls’ School Former Chong Cheng Boys’ School / Chong Pun Girls’ School St Patrick’s School Former St Anthony’s Convent St Andrew’s School Former ACS House Former Victoria School Urban Redevelopment Authority, 45 Maxwell Road, The URA Centre, Singapore 069118 Tel: (65) 6221 6666, Fax: (65) 6227 5069, Email: [email protected], Website: www.ura.gov.sg Former St Joseph’s Institution St Andrew’s School HERITAGE SCHOOLS Introduction The URA Remember the times we ran down the school corridor? Played 11 Conservation Programme hopscotch at the school canteen? Waited at the gate for mum to bring The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is the national planning us home? For many of us, the schools that we grew up in are part of authority for Singapore. Its active involvement in conservation our childhood memories. They are places where we were educated, started as early as the 1970s with the rehabilitation of some state- introduced to life beyond our family, and met teachers and classmates owned properties for adaptive reuse. To-date, conservation status has that influenced our lives. 7 been given to 94 conservation areas involving over 7000 buildings School buildings are special places with shared memories which bond throughout the island. each successive generation of students. Schools leave imprints on 12 Conservation of our built heritage is an integral part of urban planning their surroundings, whether they are the sounds of children’s laughter, and development in Singapore. The restorations of our historic areas or the sight of a familiar clock tower that marks a journey home. add variety to our streetscapes and modulate the scale of our urban fabric, creating the visual contrast within the city. School buildings in The history of schools in Singapore can be traced back to the 1820s 17 15 when Raffles College, now Raffles Institution, was established. particular are important social institutions and a cornerstone of local 2 Most schools were established in the city centre where people lived. 22 16 memories where many have been recognized as national monuments It was after the Second World War, that many of the familiar old 21 4 or conservation buildings. 20 18 8 schools relocated into the new towns following where the population Explore all 7000 precious heritage buildings here 19 moved to. While some have been lost through redevelopment as the 9 https://www.ura.gov.sg/conservationportal/consmap.html original sites were on prime land, others like these listed below have 10 been protected and re-used. They continue to serve as personal and The annual URA Architectural Heritage Awards (AHA) recognise the efforts of owners, 14 6 community landmarks to those who have passed through their gates, 14b architects, engineers, and contractors who have gone the extra mile to undertake high or have simply passed by them on their daily journeys. quality and sensitive restoration of National Monuments and conservation buildings. UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation recognize excellent achievement in successfully conserving or restoring heritage buildings and properties in the region by the private sector or by public-private initiatives. 1 Location Plan Designed and produced by URA, 2010 (Revised on 2014) 5 14a 13 3 LEGEND 1 Former Chui Eng Free School Conservation Areas 17 Former Victoria School 1 Former Chui Eng Free School 13 Former Fairfield Girls’ School Now the People’s Association Headquarters (Chinese Free School) (Chinese Free School) 14 Former ACS at Canning Rise Now part of China Square 2 Former Hong Wen School 2 Tyrwhitt Rd 14a Former ACS House at Amoy St 130 Amoy St 3 Former Vinayagananda Tamil School Victoria School had its origin as an English class in the Kampong Glam Malay 14b Former ACS at Coleman St 4 Alsagoff Arab School School in 1876. It moved to the site at Tyrwhitt Road in 1933. The original Chui Eng Free School was one of the earliest Chinese Free Schools, built in 15 Former Yock Eng High School 5 Chong-Wen Ge main classroom/ administrative block is a Neo-classical style building with a 1854 by the Hokkien Huay Kuan. It was endowed by Tan Kim Seng, a prominent (Former Chong Hock Girls’ School) 16 Former Tanjong Katong Girls’ School signature long frontage, Straits-Chinese (Peranakan) 6 Former Tao Nan School 17 Former Victoria School and was designed by merchant. Initially, these 7 The Chinese High School 18 Former Chong Cheng Boys’ School & Chong Pun Girls’ School Frank Dorrington Ward schools followed China’s 8 Former Stamford Girls’ School & Gan Eng Seng School 19 Former St Anthony’s Convent of the PWD, who also curriculum and taught & St Anthony’s Boys School 9 Former St Joseph’s Institution designed the Supreme Chinese culture and values, 20 Former Olson Building, 10 Former CHIJ (Town Convent) Methodist Girls’ School Court and former Traffic including the Analects of & St Nicholas Girls’ School 21 Former Nan Hwa Girls’ School Police Building. Confucius, in Hokkien. 11 St Andrew’s School 22 Chung Cheng High School (Main) 12 St Patrick’s School AHA Winner, 2009 © The National Archives of Singapore Archives © The National 2 Former Hong Wen School 7 The Chinese High School 12 St Patrick’s School 18 Former Chong Cheng Boys’ School Now part of Wanderlust Hotel 661 Bukit Timah Rd 490 East Coast Rd & Chong Pun Girls’ School 2 Dickson Rd Founded in 1919 by Mr Tan Kah Kee, the Chinese High School, now known as Built in 1933, St Patrick’s School used to be known up to the 70s as the “School by 32 Aliwal St Hong Wen School was established in Hwa Chong Institution, was the first Chinese-medium secondary school in the Sea”, being near where the shoreline once stood. The original buildings of St This building in the heart of 1920 by the Hing Hua dialect group Southeast Asia catering to the overseas Chinese. During the Battle of Singapore, Patrick’s School were completed in 1933 and designed by Dennis Santry of Swan & Kampong Glam housed an from Fujian province in China. The the 31-metre-high school clock tower served as headquarters for both the Allied MacLaren, who also designed Sultan Mosque and Tanjong Pagar Malayan Railway integrated Boys’ and Girls’ building used to be a residential defenders and the Imperial Station. It is built in a mix Chinese School in the late 1930s. complex till Hong Wen School moved Japanese Army with its height of Art-Deco and Mission The Chong Cheng Boys’ School in after World War II. With the lack of and vantage point. styles, The chapel, a double- and the Chong Pun Girls School space for physical activities, the roof- volume space that sits on were housed in separate wings top of the school was successfully National monument (Clock Tower), top of the old assembly hall, gazetted 1999 of the building, with a common converted into a playground for the features unique ceramic tiled school hall. The Art Deco-styled pupils. The building façade features Stations of the Cross and building features clean geometrical European Art Nouveau-inspired tiles artworks by Brother Joseph lines and a flag post under used on a scale that is unique in McNally. which is inscribed the year of its Singapore. completion and the names of its donors, the Haw Par brothers. AHA Winner, 2011 © St Patrick’s School © St Patrick’s 3 Former Vinayagananda Tamil School 8 Former Stamford Girls’ School 13 Former Fairfield Girls’ School 19 Former St Anthony’s Boys School 51 Blair Rd & Gan Eng Seng School Now the Home Team Career Centre & St Anthony’s Convent 178 Neil Rd Tamil Schools emerged soon after Now the Stamford Arts Centre Now the National Design Centre Tamils who had emigrated from 155 Waterloo St The school was founded in 1888 by Miss Sophia Blackmore, an Australian 111 Middle Rd South India could bring their wives From the late 19th century until World War II, the area around Middle Road, missionary. It began with 8 Peranakan students, as a one-room school for girls The St Anna’s School with an enrolment of 6 students was opened at Middle Rd and children to the settlement of Hylam and Malay Street was a bustling Japanese enclave. Here the Japan Club in Cross Street and was named Telok Ayer Girls’ School. In 1912, the generous in 1879 by the Portuguese Mission. This later became the St Anthony’s Boys and Singapore. Early Tamil Schools were built The Japanese School donation of $5,000 from an Girls School. In 1906, set up in shophouses in Tanjong in 1920 and was closed American, Mr Fairfield, helped the Girls’ school became Pagar, in Serangoon and Potong by the British Army at the in the construction of the known as St Anthony’s Pasir. These were small classes of beginning of World War II. school at Neil Road, and Convent and was run by pupils taught by a single teacher. The Notable features include was renamed Fairfield Girls’ nuns of the Canossian pupils learnt Tamil Language and the pediment with motif of School.