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Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
Conserved Building

141 Victoria Street

Applicable Guidelines

Other Building Guidelines

Conservation Area

Queen Street Conservation Area

Historic address: 141 Victoria Street

Former St Anthony's Boys' School

Front facade of 141 Victoria Street

About

St Anthony's Boys' and Girls' School was situated in the church compound and attached to the Mission.

The History

Father Jose Pedro Santa Anna de Cunha of St Joseph's Church first started St Anna's School within the Church compound for the poor parishioners in 1879 with an enrolment of six students. The school later became known as St Anthony's Boys' and Girls' School in 1886. In Nov 1894 St Anthony's Girls' School with 73 students was separated from the Boys' School. The Canossian nuns managed St Anthony's Girl's School where the girls were taught basic education and technical skills such as sewing and embroidery. In 1906, the school became known as St. Anthony's Convent. The school began to grow and expand with new wings added in the pre-war years to house an orphanage, kindergarten, chapel and new quarters for the nuns. Other than providing education for its students, the Mission school also provided refuge for the poor and neglected. After the war, the school continued with its expansion with the erection of a new five-storey building in the 1950s. The school provided education for many girls in this campus until 1995, when it moved to its new premises in Bedok.

Guidelines and Procedures

All proposed works will need to comply with the Conservation Guidelines and the Specific Restoration Guidelines (SRG). Conservation Permission is required before all additions & alteration works and operations of new use can begin.

Residential Fronts are characterised by timber casement windows flanking a double-leafed timber door. All buildings with residential front which is existing and/or identified in the 'Specific Restoration Guidelines', regardless of land use zoning, shall be retained and restored.

Gallery

Building of 141 Victoria Street

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The building can be found at this street.

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