{"id":7957,"date":"2014-07-04T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:26:14","slug":"national-churches-trust-330000-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7957","title":{"rendered":"National Churches Trust: \u00a3330,000 in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The National Churches Trust (NCT) has announced a \u00a3330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 churches and chapels across the UK<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The NCT writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve announced a \u00a3330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 of the UK\u2019s most historic and community-minded churches and chapels.<\/p>\n<p>Places of worship in England, Wales and Scotland benefit from our latest round of funding.\u00a0 Amongst the churches being offered grants are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St Pancras Old Church, one of the oldest churches in London and a site of Christian worship since the 4th century.<\/li>\n<li>St Anne\u2019s Church, Chasetown, Staffordshire, in 1883 one of the first churches in the UK to have electricity.<\/li>\n<li>St Mary, St Peter and St Paul, Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, a church with a tower dating from 1270, originally built to guard the Severn river against possible incursions from Wales.<\/li>\n<li>The United Reformed Church in Ottery St Mary, Devon, one of the oldest non-conformist churches in England.<\/li>\n<li>St Mary\u2019s Church in Clapham, London, one of the major Roman Catholic Victorian churches of south London.<\/li>\n<li>St Luke\u2019s Church in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, built in 1886, with a growing congregation and a mission to help ex-offenders from local prisons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buildings supported come from a wide range of denominations including Church of England, Church in Wales, Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic churches, as well as a United Reformed Church, Methodist chapels and a building belonging to the Celestial Church of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalchurchestrust.org\/news\/latest-grants-safeguard-historic-churches\" target=\"_blank\">National Churches Trust article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Churches Trust (NCT) has announced a \u00a3330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 churches and chapels across the UK. The NCT writes: We&#8217;ve announced a \u00a3330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 of the UK\u2019s most historic and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7957\">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-7957","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\/7957","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=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7958,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}