{"id":2547,"date":"2022-05-25T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2022-05-25T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:24:21","slug":"visit-to-st-mary-and-st-edwards-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"Visit to St Mary and St Edward&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Whittingdale recently visited St Mary and St Edward&#8217;s Church in West Hanningfield, for a celebration of the completed restoration of the bell tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has taken 8 years, and has seen restoration of the tower, bell frame and the 4 Miles Graye III 1676 bells.&nbsp;It was funded by local fund-raising, and support from the Government Listed Places of Worship Scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John met the Project Leader, David Gibson, Church Warden, Ann Usher, and Mary Armson who now runs the team of bell ringers in the Church (pictured).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/St-Marys-Church.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" width=\"549\" height=\"468\"\/><figcaption>John with Mary Armson, who leads the team of bell ringers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale recently visited St Mary and St Edward&#8217;s Church in West Hanningfield, for a celebration of the completed restoration of the bell tower. The project has taken 8 years, and has seen restoration of the tower, bell frame and the 4 Miles Graye III 1676 bells.&nbsp;It was funded by local fund-raising, and support from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}