{"id":25227,"date":"2006-09-05T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/05\/christ-church\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T00:37:00","slug":"christ-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25227","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As far as I can tell, Christ Church<\/a> is just a load of old barns off Northcourt Road. They have been purchased over the years. Initially the local people making up the church bought a derelict 12th Century Tithe Barn and converted it into a church.
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Then they added a hall next door to act as a church hall, and as an overspill area to the main church. I haven’t been to a service at Christ Church since the days when David Bryant was the curate (circa 1990). He went on to teach at a college training would-be-vicars where the BBC did a fly on the wall TV documentary which heavily featured David Bryant judging whether these would-be-vicars had that X-Factor.
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Back then in 1990 the hall served as an overflow area with CCTV links. It was that popular!<\/p>\n

And it still appears to be popular, despite the change of ministers.<\/p>\n

They have a brand of up-to-date worship music and evangelical outreach. You would hardly think they were Church of England, and they have more to them than just being ‘happy-clappy’.
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More recently they have purchased other medieaval barns and building that belonged to a dairy, and are gradually putting them to community use. Some of the buildings have been renovated for use as a kindergarten, youth rooms and band practise, stores, offices, meeting rooms etc…<\/p>\n

They have even set up a satellite church in the primary school on the Long Furlong<\/a> estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As far as I can tell, Christ Church is just a load of old barns off Northcourt Road. They have been purchased over the years. Initially the local people making up the church bought a derelict 12th Century Tithe Barn and converted it into a church.Then they added a hall next door to act as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227","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=25227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}