Beulah House is a bungalow on Gilstead Road in Novena, Singapore . It housed an eye clinic before it was acquired by the Life Bible-Presbyterian Church in 1990.
16-672: The bungalow was designed "in concept, but not in totality" in the Edwardian Baroque style, which was common in Singapore before the rise in popularity of Art Deco and Modernism on the island. The asymmetrical building features a turret with a conical roof of "fish-scale" tiles made of clay. The turret also features "ornate" decorative dentils and relief mouldings. The ground floor features semi-circular arches featuring keystones, as well as plaster panels with mouldings and cornices. The original gateposts, which were shifted to allow for
32-555: A Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular for public buildings in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to 1914 is commonly included in this style. It can also be used to mean various styles in middle-class housing, including relaxed versions of Arts and Crafts architecture . Edwardian architecture is generally less ornate than high or late Victorian architecture , apart from
48-433: A crown . Keystones or their suggested form are sometimes placed for decorative effect in the centre of the flat top of doors, recesses and windows, so as to form an upward projection of a lintel , as a hallmark of strength or good architecture. Although a masonry arch or vault cannot be self-supporting until the keystone is placed, the keystone experiences the least stress of any of the voussoirs , due to its position at
64-570: A subset – used for major buildings – known as Edwardian Baroque architecture. The Victorian Society campaigns to preserve architecture built between 1837 and 1914, and so includes Edwardian as well as Victorian architecture within its remit. The characteristic features of the Edwardian Baroque style were drawn from two main sources: the architecture of France during the 18th century and that of Sir Christopher Wren in England during
80-460: A wider entrance, remain standing. The local authorities approved plans for a single-storey bungalow on the site on 14 October 1919. A revised plan, which included two two-storey bungalows with an attached workers' quarters was approved on 24 November. The bungalow was likely built somewhere between 1919 and 1920. The developer of the project was Florence Boudewyn. One of the bungalows was later demolished and redeveloped into high-rise apartments, while
96-725: The Ionic order and domed towers modelled closely on Wren's for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich . Some Edwardian Baroque buildings include details from other sources, such as the Dutch gables of Norman Shaw 's Piccadilly Hotel in London . Other characteristics include: Keystone (architecture) A keystone (or capstone ) is the wedge-shaped stone at the apex of a masonry arch or typically round-shaped one at
112-401: The voussoirs of arched openings (derived from French models); domed corner rooftop pavilions and a central taller tower-like element creating a lively rooftop silhouette; revived Italian Baroque elements such as exaggerated keystones , segmental arched pediments , columns with engaged blocks, attached block-like rustication to window surrounds; colonnades of (sometimes paired ) columns in
128-744: The 17th—part of the English Baroque (for this reason Edwardian Baroque is sometimes referred to as " Wrenaissance "). Sir Edwin Lutyens was a major exponent, designing many commercial buildings in what he termed 'the Grand Style' during the later 1910s and 1920s. This period of British architectural history is considered a particularly retrospective one, since it is contemporary with Art Nouveau . Typical details of Edwardian Baroque architecture include extensive rustication , usually more extreme at ground level, often running into and exaggerating
144-762: The Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the Pennsylvania National Guard's 28th Infantry Division (United States) , a Red Keystone, first adopted during World War I in October 1918. In Christianity, Psalms 118:22, translated in the Authorized Version as "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner", is taken to refer to Jesus. Referring to the Book of Mormon , Joseph Smith said that it "was
160-406: The apex of a vault . In both cases it is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch or vault to bear weight. In arches and vaults (such as quasi-domes) keystones are often enlarged beyond the structural requirements and decorated. A variant in domes and crowning vaults is a lantern . A portion of the arch surrounding the keystone is called
176-407: The apex. Old keystones can decay due to vibration, a condition known as bald arch . In a rib-vaulted ceiling, keystones commonly mark the intersections of any two or more arched ribs. For aesthetics, keystones are often larger than ribs in vaults and many of the voussoirs (arch stones) in arches, or embellished with a boss . A "dropped keystone" is one where the keystone projects lower than
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#1732786827075192-642: The church received approval from the authorities to use the building as a hostel. It was gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on 19 May 2003. The church later restored the building, which involved removing the alterations it had received, including its mezzanine flooring and the boarding up of its arches windows and floors, and reinstating and recovering its original features, such as its terrazzo flooring. Broken tiles were replaced by identical ones made in Vietnam. It
208-579: The other housed an eye clinic for several decades. Over the years, the remaining bungalow received "many unauthorised ad hoc extensions and alterations." In 1990, the bungalow was acquired by the Life Bible-Presbyterian Church , which is located across the road from the bungalow. The church had reportedly been seeking to purchase the property for several decades as a "potential expansion to the Church activities." On 10 February 1992,
224-399: The other voussoirs. Following Giulio Romano , Mannerist architects of the 16th century often designed arches with enlarged and slightly dropped keystones, as in the "church house" entrance portal at Colditz Castle . Numerous examples are found in the work of Sebastiano Serlio , a 16th-century Italian Mannerist architect. Keystone is often used metaphorically for an essential part on which
240-619: The whole depends or as an acme of the whole. The U.S. state of Pennsylvania calls itself the "Keystone State", because during early American history, it held a crucial central position among the Thirteen Colonies geographically, economically, and politically, like the keystone in an arch. A keystone is a symbol of Pennsylvania, being used in the logos of many Pennsylvania government departments, in Pennsylvania state route signs , and on Pennsylvania car license plates , and
256-585: Was renamed the Beulah House by the church and serves as a venue for the church's "supplementary activities". The restoration project received the Urban Redevelopment Authority Architectural Heritage Award in 2009. 1°18′55″N 103°50′20″E / 1.31536°N 103.83879°E / 1.31536; 103.83879 Edwardian architecture Edwardian architecture usually means
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