{"id":44580,"date":"2025-11-11T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44580"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:00:00","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-700-year-old-church-tower-suspended-45ft-above-the-ground-in-city-of-london-building-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44580","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: 700-year-old church tower suspended 45ft above the ground in City of London building site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/512px-All_Hallows_Staining_church_2025-02-07_Maggie_Jones_Public_Domain_Commons_Wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/512px-All_Hallows_Staining_church_2025-02-07_Maggie_Jones_Public_Domain_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/512px-All_Hallows_Staining_church_2025-02-07_Maggie_Jones_Public_Domain_Commons_Wiki.png 512w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/512px-All_Hallows_Staining_church_2025-02-07_Maggie_Jones_Public_Domain_Commons_Wiki-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:All_Hallows_Staining_church_2025-02-07.jpg\">All Hallows Staining Church<\/a> by Maggie Jones, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All Hallows Staining Church at 50 Fenchurch Street has been surrounded by a 60,000 square foot excavation site, reports <em>The Standard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Standard<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground&#8230; The tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site\u2026 what developers called a \u2018never seen before feat of engineering\u2019. A \u2018bottoming out\u2019 ceremony\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 The tower is the last remaining part of the church thought to have first been built in the 14th century\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/fenchurch-street-city-city-of-london-construction-people-b1249338.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: All Hallows Staining Church by Maggie Jones, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The All Hallows Staining Church at 50 Fenchurch Street has been surrounded by a 60,000 square foot excavation site, reports The Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,57,18,24,30,23,29,16,22],"class_list":["post-44580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-church","tag-conservation","tag-engineering","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-planning","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580","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=44580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44582,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580\/revisions\/44582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}