{"id":40328,"date":"2024-07-07T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40328"},"modified":"2024-07-07T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:21:13","slug":"vic-soc-says-happy-birthday-george-edmund-street-gala-dinner-for-members-guests-starts-fundraising-in-bicentenary-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40328","title":{"rendered":"Vic Soc says: Happy Birthday, George Edmund Street! Gala Dinner for members &amp; guests starts fundraising in bicentenary year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Victorian_Society_logo_new.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Victorian_Society_logo_new.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27648\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Guests and Victorian Society (Vic Soc) staff joined the Revd Lis Goddard and the team of St James the Less to mark G E Street\u2019s bicentenary with a gala fundraising dinner to \u2018restore Street\u2019s first commission in London\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Vic Soc writes:<\/p>\n<p>The dinner is the beginning of the fundraising campaign to restore Street\u2019s first commission in London. The church\u2019s team need to raise \u00a31.5 million &#8211; bookmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjtl.org\/friends\/\">this link to support the campaign<\/a>. The speaker was Dominic Grieve, a former attorney general, who spoke about St James the Less and the Royal Courts of Justice. Street events continue until November this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/victoriansociety\/the-victorian-society-newsletter-june-2024?e=84f949a5eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VS Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/national-news\/happy-birthday-george-edmund-street-the-victorian-society-celebrates-the-bicentenary-year-of-architect-g-e-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More background<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests and Victorian Society (Vic Soc) staff joined the Revd Lis Goddard and the team of St James the Less to mark G E Street\u2019s bicentenary with a gala fundraising dinner to \u2018restore Street\u2019s first commission in London\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40328","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\/40328","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40361,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}