Previously known as Bukit Larangan (Forbidden Hill) and Government Hill, Fort Canning used to be the home of the Resident and the site where the first botanic gardens resided. St Andrew's Church was designed by Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Macpherson, and 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.
