{"id":87325,"date":"2019-12-09T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87325"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:38:22","slug":"telegraph-cathedrals-across-britain-are-selling-historic-fixtures-and-fittings-to-cover-maintenance-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87325","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Cathedrals across Britain are selling historic fixtures and fittings to cover maintenance costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathedrals across Britain are selling their historic fixtures and fittings to cover maintenance costs, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle&#8217;s St Nicholas Cathedral, which dates back to the 1400s, is to sell 35 of its Victorian-era oak pews to raise money ahead of a \u00a36m renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Project chiefs say the decoratively carved benches, made in the 1880s, could become garden furniture or be used in hotels and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>They will be sold on a first come, first served basis for upwards of \u00a3450 and it is hoped the sales will raise up to \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/12\/07\/cathedrals-across-britain-selling-historic-fixtures-fittings\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Newcastle&#8217;s St Nicholas Cathedral, which dates back to the 1400s, is to sell 35 of its Victorian-era oak pews to raise money ahead of a \u00a36m renovation.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VuB6Yfka1j\">https:\/\/t.co\/VuB6Yfka1j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1203653002130800642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2019<\/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>Cathedrals across Britain are selling their historic fixtures and fittings to cover maintenance costs, it has emerged. Newcastle&#8217;s St Nicholas Cathedral, which dates back to the 1400s, is to sell 35 of its Victorian-era oak pews to raise money ahead<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87325\">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":[389,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87325","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=87325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87329,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87325\/revisions\/87329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}