{"id":35760,"date":"2026-08-11T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35760"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:57:10","slug":"a-few-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35760","title":{"rendered":"A Few Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWalking around Abingdon, it is easy to pass the town&#8217;s front doors without paying them any mind. But some doors are on a show, like this one at Lock House. On most front doors the wood is painted over but here you can still see the wood.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081108.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHere is a much older door where the wood is visible. It has a stone surround and archway.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis doorway has a fanlight, columns and simple decoration typical of the Georgian period.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081107.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSome Georgian houses went further. This doorway, with its surround, columns and triangular pediment looks very grand.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAnother triangular pediment. Brick this time. By the Victorian period, brick became an important part of doorway decoration.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe doorway has brickwork and a white decorative surround.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026081112.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis door has less decoration, but the colour and simple appearance are attractive.<\/p>\n<p>I have probably walked past all these doors many times without really noticing them. But today I decided to photograph doors after hearing that the Abingdon Artists went out drawing and painting pictures of doors at their last &#8216;Quick on the Draw&#8217; session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around Abingdon, it is easy to pass the town&#8217;s front doors without paying them any mind. But some doors are on a show, like this one at Lock House. On most front doors the wood is painted over but here you can still see the wood. Here is a much older door where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archictecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760","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=35760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}