LICH GATE in front of the Church was built by British Prisoners of war during Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Gazetted as a national monument on 10 November 1978
The British Army in Singapore required a new Church in Tanglin Barracks to replace the old one built in 1884.
Captain Stanbury of the Royal Engineers began work on the new Church in 1910 and the total cost of the building was £2,000. St George's Church was completed in 1913.
.. More