{"id":16054,"date":"2017-07-11T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2017-07-11T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:52:36","slug":"framlingham-castle-reopens-following-1-2-million-investment-and-conservation-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16054","title":{"rendered":"Framlingham Castle reopens following \u00a31.2 million investment and conservation work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EH_Framlingham110717-e1499784726986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16055\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EH_Framlingham110717-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"English Heritage Framlingham Castle website\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>Framlingham Castle has reopens its doors after a \u00a31.2 million investment and conservation project, allowing visitors to uncover the 900-year-old story of the site.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>English Heritage writes:<\/p>\n<p>A new exhibition has been created within the castle\u2019s workhouse, which features a walkthrough of the castle\u2019s varied owners and interactive games that bring the history of its past inhabitants to life. Previous residents include Mary Tudor, who was stationed at the castle when she was proclaimed queen in 1553.<\/p>\n<p>The castle\u2019s curtain wall has also been carefully conserved by English Heritage for future generations to enjoy. Working with specialist contractors, essential repairs have been made to parts of the curtain wall, wall walk and bridges using heritage skills such as lime slaking, mixing of mortars, repointing, stone carving and carpentry.<\/p>\n<p>The charity now plans to fundraise for a second phase of work which would include the creation of a lift to all floors, and the opening of the remaining wall walk to provide a complete the 360\u00b0 experience of exploring the whole circuit. Framlingham Castle and its distinctive curtain wall played a starring role in the video for Ed Sheeran\u2019s hit single \u2018Castle on the Hill.\u2019 Described by Ed as a \u2018love song to Suffolk\u2019, the singer has often spoken of his love for his home town and the song wistfully remembers how he often \u2018watched the sun set over the castle on the hill\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/about-us\/search-news\/framlingham-castle-to-reopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Framlingham Castle has reopens its doors after a \u00a31.2 million investment and conservation project, allowing visitors to uncover the 900-year-old story of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16056,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}