{"id":111196,"date":"2022-04-08T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111196"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:16:08","slug":"bbc-dunstable-priory-church-was-once-much-larger-says-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111196","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Dunstable Priory church was once much larger, says survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The true size and importance of a medieval church has been revealed following an archaeological survey by Historic England.<\/p>\n<p>Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire was founded by Henry I in 1132 for the Augustinian Canons.<\/p>\n<p>It was the location of the court which annulled Henry VIII&#8217;s marriage to Catherine of Aragon.<\/p>\n<p>The church survived his dissolution of the monasteries, but was once &#8220;grander and more elaborate&#8221;, the survey shows<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61011472\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Archaeological surveys at Dunstable Priory <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diostalbans?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@diostalbans<\/a> reveal larger church. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IPZsNku1Fq\">https:\/\/t.co\/IPZsNku1Fq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Janet Gough (@Gough_Janet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gough_Janet\/status\/1512368528799805442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true size and importance of a medieval church has been revealed following an archaeological survey by Historic England. Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire was founded by Henry I in 1132 for the Augustinian Canons. It was the location of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111196\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,389,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111199,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111196\/revisions\/111199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}