The Anglican mission arrived in Kuching in 1848 under Francis McDougall, who became the first Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, and the hill above the old town has been church ground ever since. The image here is a nineteenth-century view by Harriette McDougall, the bishop's wife and herself one of the sharpest chroniclers of early Brooke Sarawak; the cathedral standing today is a later building on the same site.
The precinct is the draw as much as the building: a walled green hill holding the cathedral, the old bishop's house, school buildings and a churchyard whose stones record missionaries, administrators and traders of the Brooke decades. It is one of the quietest places in central Kuching and sits directly above the noise of the old town.
