{"id":48611,"date":"2015-02-28T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_westminster_abbey_wins_permission_to_add_first_new_tower_in_300_ye\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:00:42","slug":"guardian_westminster_abbey_wins_permission_to_add_first_new_tower_in_300_ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48611","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Westminster Abbey wins permission to add first new tower in 300 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster Abbey has won planning permission to add its first new tower in almost 300 years, which will create public access to a museum of treasures and curiosities housed in the triforium, the church\u2019s attic gallery.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the public can get only a distant glimpse of the spectacular and shadowy space through the stone arches 70ft up at the top of the walls above the high altar.<\/p>\n<p>The only way in is a perilous journey up narrow spiral staircases and along ledge-like passages high above the nave. The spectacular but vertigo-inducing view down to the altar and nave has mostly been enjoyed by maintenance staff and camera crews covering major state events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/feb\/26\/westminster-abbey-wins-permission-add-first-new-tower-300-years\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster Abbey has won planning permission to add its first new tower in almost 300 years, which will create public access to a museum of treasures and curiosities housed in the triforium, the church\u2019s attic gallery. At present, the public<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48611\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,97,389,199,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-architecture","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611","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=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}