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Civic & heritage · Bukit Merah

Former St James Power Station

Former St James Power Station is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Former St James Power Station, a civic building in Singapore
Former St James Power Station, photographed as a civic building and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Westliche · CC-BY-SA-4.0

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  • Architecture & design — A building whose interest is legible from the street, whether or not anything inside it is open. It is in this corpus as gazetted as a national monument of Singapore.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Former St James Power Station"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier Urban Redevelopment Authority gives this record in Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer. Read from the response, never transcribed.
category
Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "National monument".

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record 60 of Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer, retrieved 2026-09-08.

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Visit info checked Sept 2026

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