{"id":33763,"date":"2025-05-21T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33763"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:55:11","slug":"trinity-church-celebrates-150-years-on-sunday-1st-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33763","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Church Celebrates 150 Years on Sunday 1st June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052102.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday 1st June, Trinity Church in Abingdon will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its opening in 1875. To mark this special occasion, there will be a thanksgiving service at 3pm, with former ministers Revd Malcolm Atherton, Revd Richard Bittleston, and Revd Ian Griffiths joining the current minister, Revd Georgina Bondzi-Simpson.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052101.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAs part of the celebrations, there will be an exhibition in the church, looking back over Trinity\u2019s 150-year history. A slideshow of images will be shown during the service, and from 2:30pm, a 20-minute extract from the 1980 BBC Songs of Praise broadcast from Trinity will be playing. The broadcast includes a performance by the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any photos or memories of Trinity Church that could be included in the exhibition, please get in touch via: trinity.abingdon@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>The service will be followed by tea in the Conduit Centre, and all are warmly invited. If you\u2019d like to stay for tea, please RSVP by 25th May to: trinity.abingdon@gmail.com. This will help with catering numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Thankyou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 1st June, Trinity Church in Abingdon will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its opening in 1875. To mark this special occasion, there will be a thanksgiving service at 3pm, with former ministers Revd Malcolm Atherton, Revd Richard Bittleston, and Revd Ian Griffiths joining the current minister, Revd Georgina Bondzi-Simpson. As part of [&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-33763","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\/33763","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=33763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}