{"id":21998,"date":"2019-02-04T23:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21998"},"modified":"2019-02-04T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:46:50","slug":"guildhall-open-weekend-16th-17th-feb-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21998","title":{"rendered":"Guildhall Open Weekend 16th-17th Feb 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guildhall rooms are now open for hire after extensive refurbishment. The same team running the Abbey Cinema is managing the Guildhall rooms on behalf of the Town Council.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19020404.jpg\" alt=\"Guildhall Open Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nA new website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guildhall.ac\/\">www.guildhall.ac<\/a>&nbsp;has images of the five historic rooms, the Roysse Room (formerly the Abingdon school room),<\/p>\n<p>the Old Magistrates Court (with magistrates bench, dock and cells still intact),<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19020402.jpg\" alt=\"Guildhall Open Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nthe Abbey Room,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19020403.jpg\" alt=\"Guildhall Open Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nthe Bear Room,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19020401.jpg\" alt=\"Guildhall Open Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nand the grand Council Chamber complete with impressive oil paintings and fireplaces.<\/p>\n<p>In a Press Release Ian Wiper said, \u201c<em>We are delighted to be managing the Guildhall which seemed to make sense given our hospitality experience and the fact that we already have a whole team in situ running the cinema 7 days a week, from 9am until late\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hire rates for local community groups and weddings have been set by the Town Council at \u00a340 per 3 hour session for the larger Roysse Room and Council Chamber, and \u00a324 for the other rooms.&nbsp; Wedding ceremonies will be charged at \u00a3300 and \u00a3150 respectively.&nbsp; The rooms are available for weddings, christenings, clubs and society meetings, banquets and social events.<\/p>\n<p>The Guildhall restoration included refurbishing the kitchen and there are now two resident chefs to cater for everything from wedding receptions to food during films.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Harris, Guildhall Events Manager, said, \u201c<em>We look forward to meeting as many residents as possible over the Open Weekend.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guildhall rooms are now open for hire after extensive refurbishment. The same team running the Abbey Cinema is managing the Guildhall rooms on behalf of the Town Council. A new website www.guildhall.ac&nbsp;has images of the five historic rooms, the Roysse Room (formerly the Abingdon school room), the Old Magistrates Court (with magistrates bench, dock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guildhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998","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=21998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}