{"id":13494,"date":"2015-03-05T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13494"},"modified":"2015-03-05T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:50:00","slug":"st-nicolas-makeover-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13494","title":{"rendered":"St Nicolas Makeover Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Julia for letting me know that St Nicolas Church (in the Market Place) are proposing to swap the pews for flexible seating &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030503.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Makeover Proposals\" \/><br \/>\nSo now is the time for the people of Abingdon to say whether they agree or not.<\/p>\n<p>The church has been at the centre of life in the town for 850 years.  Church members want to make it more available for use by the community, while maintaining its primary function as a Christian church.  Details of the proposed changes and a questionnaire for comments can be found in the church or on the website (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151201004555\/http:\/\/www.stnicolasabingdon.org.uk:80\/consultation.html\">www.stnicolasofabingdon.org.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030501.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Makeover Proposals\" \/><br \/>\nThe church is normally open on weekdays from 10-1.00 so please go in to discuss the ideas over a cup of coffee, or phone 01235 536343.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030504.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Makeover Proposals\" \/><br \/>\nSt Nicolas Church was also open this evening for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abfilms.org.uk\/\">ABCD Film Club<\/a> Annual Silent Classic. This year it was Sparrows starring Mary Pickford from 1926 \u2013 accompanied on piano by Andrew Youdell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Julia for letting me know that St Nicolas Church (in the Market Place) are proposing to swap the pews for flexible seating &#8230; So now is the time for the people of Abingdon to say whether they agree or not. The church has been at the centre of life in the town for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}