{"id":1968,"date":"2019-03-18T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:33:23","slug":"heptonstall-saint-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Heptonstall, St Thomas the Apostle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1969\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1969\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall-624x416.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Saint-Thomas-Heptonstall.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Thomas the Apostle, Heptonstall. 8 bells; 18-1-3 in E. 1929 by John Taylor &amp; Co.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Bells<\/h2>\n<p>The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Heptonstall posses an excellent ring of eight bells. The bells were cast in 1912 by John Taylor &amp; Co. of Loughborough. The tenor bell weighs 929 kg and the ring is in the key of E.<\/p>\n<p>I rang my 1,000<sup>th<\/sup> peal (5,040 changes of <a href=\"https:\/\/bb.ringingworld.co.uk\/view.php?id=1252124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruby Alliance Major<\/a>) here on Monday, October 29 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I rang my 800<sup>th<\/sup> peal (5,012 changes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bb.ringingworld.co.uk\/view.php?id=1533022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambleside Alliance Major)<\/a> for the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers here on Friday, August 5 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2359.3088462437167!2d-2.0242201835786346!3d53.74838348006526!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487beaf5e22d9dbf%3A0xf57ab358242af868!2sSt+Thomas+The+Apostle+Church%2C+Heptonstall!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1553256555382\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bells The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Heptonstall posses an excellent ring of eight bells. The bells were cast in 1912 by John Taylor &amp; Co. of Loughborough. The tenor bell weighs 929 kg and the ring is in the key of E. I rang my 1,000th peal (5,040 changes of Ruby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-yorkshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}