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FORMER STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
Dating from 1891 and designed by AC Norman, the building that was originally the Standard Chartered Bank
was later used to house the National History Museum and was, until recently, a restaurant. There are now plans to
turn it into a music museum.
Mosaic portraits of all of Malaysia's prime ministers line a wall next to the Victorian Fountain (1904) said
to be have been built in memory of an inspector of the Selangor Miltary; at one time horses would have
lapped water here.
St Mary's Anglican Cathedral
When it came to
St Mary's Anglican Cathedral
MAP
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( 2692 8672;
www.stmaryscathedral.org.my
;
Jln Raja; Masjid Jamek)
, AC Norman ditched the Moorish and
Mogul influences and stuck with the traditional blueprint of an English country church.
Built in 1894, the Anglican cathedral has beautiful stained-glass windows and a fine pipe
organ dedicated to Sir Henry Gurney, the British high commissioner to Malaya, assassin-
ated in 1951 during the Emergency.
