Kampong Kapor Methodist Church

During its early years, the church catered to the Peranakan or Straits-born Chinese, with services conducted in Baba Malay in a building located on 155 Middle Road.In 1930, the church moved to its present site on 1 Kampong Kapor Road, where it now offers a variety of services to different ethnic groups.[9][10] On 25 January 1894, this group moved to “The Christian Institute” located on 155 Middle Road to function as a church.At 7.30pm that evening, six full and 16 preparatory members were organised as the first Malay Quarterly Conference chaired by the presiding elder, Rev.This reflected the largely Chinese membership and the vast donations which the family and friends of Bishop George Harvey Bickley made for the construction of the building.The present church building dates from 1929, and was designed by Swan and Maclaren, the oldest architectural firm in Singapore.The foundations of the sanctuary were underpinned, and the church also took the opportunity to renovate the education block, reconfiguring parts of it to create a new chapel and classrooms on the third floor.The interior of the sanctuary is simple and elegant, with dark wooden trusses springing gracefully from cross-shaped brackets on the walls between round clerestory windows.The interior has undergone several renovations, including (a rather unsuccessful) one in the 1960s, when the entire apse was screened off by a plasterboard wall.The road widening clearly did not require the demolition of the porte cochère, as the strip of land in front of the church was subsequently returned, unused, in the 2000s, but there are no plans to re-instate the original entrances.[16][17] The façade bears a strong resemblance to the organ in the chapel at Orchard Road Presbyterian Church.The new ranks of pipes that have been added over the years include the Great Mixture, mutations in the Swell, the reed stops (Trumpet 8' and Clarion 4') and the Subbass 16' in the Pedal.
Miss Sophia Blackmore (1857-1945).
The church’s first place of worship on 155 Middle Road .
Aerial view of Kampong Kapor Methodist Church. The 1928 building is on the left; the education block (c. 1980s) is on the right
The church’s rear entrance on Cuff Road.
Schematically animation of a mechanical-action wind chest with three ranks of pipes.
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