{"id":9410,"date":"2013-08-11T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:53:09","slug":"abingdon-becomes-a-two-parish-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9410","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon becomes a two parish town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Commissioners have approved the scheme to restructure the Parish of Abingdon, creating two parishes where there was one.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081102.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon is a two parish town\" \/><br \/>\nChrist Church is the Parish Centre for the newly created Parish of North Abingdon, to which Christ Church Long Furlong, and the Anglican part of The Peachcroft Christian Centre belong.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081103.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon is a two parish town\" \/><br \/>\nThe newly created Parish of Abingdon-on-Thames comprises St Helens, St Nicolas and St Michael. These churches, to my perception, are more traditional while those in the north are more evangelical.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion, consultation, and negotiation began back in 2007 to divide the parish of Abingdon in two.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081101.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon is a two parish town\" \/><br \/>\nThe red line on the map shows to which church parish you now belong in a parochial council electoral voting sense. But there is no problem going to any church you like. You can even go to Oxford Cathedral if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England Commissioners have approved the scheme to restructure the Parish of Abingdon, creating two parishes where there was one. Christ Church is the Parish Centre for the newly created Parish of North Abingdon, to which Christ Church Long Furlong, and the Anglican part of The Peachcroft Christian Centre belong. The newly created [&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-9410","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\/9410","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=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}