{"id":21320,"date":"2019-01-11T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21320"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:26:03","slug":"damerham-church-engraved-lead-stolen-from-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21320","title":{"rendered":"Damerham church engraved lead stolen from roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21321\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBC_news_110119.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"358\" \/>Lead with inscriptions dating to the 18th Century has been stolen from a church in the New Forest after thieves climbed 35ft (10m) up the bell tower of St George&#8217;s Church in Damerham to steal the lead sometime after New Year&#8217;s Eve.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Les Player said events the church had marked had been etched on the lead.<\/p>\n<p>A crowdfunding appeal to raise \u00a310,000 to replace the lead has, so far, raised more than \u00a31,700.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Player said: \u2018It&#8217;s a tragic loss, because it&#8217;s been there a long time and people have recorded events on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It&#8217;s been a part of the church&#8217;s story.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Church services will continue as normal but bell ringing may be affected as the ringing chamber is directly below where the lead was taken from&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-46762746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead with inscriptions dating to the 18th Century has been stolen from a church in the New Forest after thieves climbed 35ft (10m) up the bell tower of St George&#8217;s Church in Damerham to steal the lead sometime after New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-21320","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\/21320","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=21320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21322,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320\/revisions\/21322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}