{"id":16306,"date":"2016-05-23T22:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:19:51","slug":"hope-within-us-tour-of-st-helens-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16306","title":{"rendered":"Hope Within Us &#8211; Tour of St Helen&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Hope Within Us&#8217; events took place last week &#8211; organised by the churches of the Parish of Abingdon-on-Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052305.jpg\" alt=\"St Helens Church\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday there were two tours of St Helen&#8217;s Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052304.jpg\" alt=\"St Helens Church\" \/><br \/>\nMany Abingdon people, from generation to generation, have made their first visit to the church on being baptised at the font.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052312.jpg\" alt=\"St Helens Church\" \/><br \/>\nThe present building began as a one aisle church, with tower, in the early thirteenth century. Four more aisles were then added to the south &#8211; the fifth and final aisle in 1539. The central aisle was subsequently made higher in Victorian times to let in more light.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052306.jpg\" alt=\"St Helens Church\" \/><br \/>\nThe west door though the central aisle is used for other important life events. It is through this door that couples enter to be married, and from this door people are carried on their final goodbye.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16052307.jpg\" alt=\"St Helens Church\" \/><br \/>\nOver that door St Helen is seen carrying a model of the St Helen&#8217;s Church in one hand, and a cross in the other. The Fraternity of the Holy Cross was based at St Helen&#8217;s church until being dissolved by royal decree in 1547.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Hope Within Us&#8217; events took place last week &#8211; organised by the churches of the Parish of Abingdon-on-Thames. On Saturday there were two tours of St Helen&#8217;s Church. Many Abingdon people, from generation to generation, have made their first visit to the church on being baptised at the font. The present building began as [&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-16306","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\/16306","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=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}