{"id":355,"date":"2016-05-11T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2016-05-12T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:45:44","slug":"christ-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/christ-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-356 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"christ-church\" width=\"517\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church-360x174.jpg 360w, http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church-200x97.jpg 200w, http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church-100x48.jpg 100w, http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christ-church.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christchurchstamford.com\/\">Christ Church<\/a> is the newest parish church in Stamford. In 1959 it was proposed to build a new church to serve the expanding residential area in the north of the town.<\/p>\n<p>A wooden hut (still standing) was erected on Willoughby Road as a daughter church to St. Michael&#8217;s, and dedicated in 1961. It was affiliated to St. John&#8217;s when St. Michael&#8217;s closed in 1962. For the next 10 years the hut served as a place of worship as well as a community centre.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972 Christ Church became a conventional district within the parish of St. John&#8217;s, and in 1975 work began on creating a permanent building which would be a parish church in its own right. Land was acquired on Green Lane, and by 1978 the flat roofed part of the building was complete. Stage 2 was to construct the main church on top of the old water tank on the site! The tank now forms a basement\u00a0below the church (completed in 1979) for TeenZone. Christ Church became a formal parish in 1992.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"copyright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/copyright\/#main\" target=\"_blank\">Text and drawings copyright \u00a9 Lincolnshire County Council: Stamford Museum<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church is the newest parish church in Stamford. In 1959 it was proposed to build a new church to serve the expanding residential area in the north of the town. A wooden hut (still standing) was erected on Willoughby Road as a daughter church to St. Michael&#8217;s, and dedicated in 1961. It was affiliated&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/christ-church\/\">Continue Reading Christ Church<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}