{"id":5832,"date":"2012-02-15T22:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2012-02-15T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:32:44","slug":"abingdon-links-in-london-1-st-mary-abbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon links in London &#8211; 1. St Mary Abbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021602.jpg\" alt=\"raffle prizes\" \/><br \/>\nFor a few weeks I&#8217;m working within sound of Bow Bells, and have started to seek out places in London associated with Abingdon. First place I found is the church of St Mary Abbots &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A noble knight who was given lands in Kensington (after 1066 and all that) had a son who was taken seriously ill. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faritius\">Faritius<\/a>, Abbot of the Abbey of St Mary at Abingdon, helped cure the boy, and as a result the grateful knight bequeathed the church in Kensington, and much land, to the abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon Abbey established a parish in Kensington, dedicated to St Mary. The church, opposite Kensington High Street Tube Station, has been rebuilt since, but is still called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Mary_Abbots\">St Mary Abbots<\/a> &#8211; the \u2018Abbots\u2019 being in memory of Faritius and his successors. I believe it has the tallest steeple in London at 278 feet.\u00a0 (Trinity in Abingdon is 128 feet. Not sure about St Helens.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few weeks I&#8217;m working within sound of Bow Bells, and have started to seek out places in London associated with Abingdon. First place I found is the church of St Mary Abbots &#8230; A noble knight who was given lands in Kensington (after 1066 and all that) had a son who was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","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=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}