{"id":30325,"date":"2023-02-08T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30325"},"modified":"2023-02-08T00:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:17:33","slug":"the-abbey-gateway-in-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30325","title":{"rendered":"The Abbey Gateway in February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0 Abbey Gateway was built in the fifteenth century at the entrance to Abingdon Abbey.
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\nIn this view, the afternoon sun is shaded by bollards, an information sign, and people passing by.
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\nThey are watched over by the gargoyles, furry with algae and moss,
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\nand grotesques with gouged-out eyes.<\/p>\n

A gargoyle spouts water and gargles. A grotesque is grotesque.
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\nThe other side of the archway has a medieval vaulted ceiling where grey stone looks golden in places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0 Abbey Gateway was built in the fifteenth century at the entrance to Abingdon Abbey. In this view, the afternoon sun is shaded by bollards, an information sign, and people passing by. They are watched over by the gargoyles, furry with algae and moss, and grotesques with gouged-out eyes. A gargoyle spouts water and gargles. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-buildings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325","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=30325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}