{"id":46766,"date":"2026-05-19T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46766"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:53:00","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-midlands-church-that-leans-more-than-the-tower-of-pisa-faces-100000-bill-to-fix-wonky-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46766","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Midlands Church that leans more than the Tower of Pisa faces \u00a3100,000 bill to fix wonky floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Dry_Doddington_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3562563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500px-Dry_Doddington_church_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_35625631.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500px-Dry_Doddington_church_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_35625631.jpg 500w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500px-Dry_Doddington_church_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_35625631-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Dry_Doddington_church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3562563.jpg\">Dry Doddington church by\u00a0Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A church in the Midlands that has leaned at an angle greater than the Tower of Pisa is in need of more than \u00a3100,000 to repair its wonky flooring, reports <em>Premier Christian News.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Premier Christian News<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St James Church in Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire has risen to fame for its angled tower of 5.1 degrees, compared to the landmark in Piazza dei Miracoli in Tuscany, which has a lean of 3.97 degrees\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026trying to raise the money needed to save the Grade II listed building, which was built during the 12th century\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 Richard Loynes, church warden at St James in Dry Doddington wrote on an online fundraising page: \u2018We need to replace the very old floor in our 14th-century church which has the famous tower that leans more than Pisa!\u2019 Loynes told Lincs Online: \u2018As with hundreds of churches we need to raise funds, but we\u2019re as bad, if not worse than most, as we have a wonky floor. We are hoping to raise just over \u00a3100,000 to tackle the floor, replaster some of the walls and to upgrade the electricity as we only have one plug\u2026\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/congregation-of-church-leaning-more-than-tower-of-pisa-fundraises-for-100k-to-fix-wonky-floor\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Dry Doddington church by\u00a0Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A church in the Midlands that has leaned at an angle greater than the Tower of Pisa is in need of more than \u00a3100,000 to repair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,845,278],"class_list":["post-46766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-churches","tag-medieval","tag-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46768,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766\/revisions\/46768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}