{"id":53763,"date":"2010-02-22T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53763"},"modified":"2020-06-07T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:07:34","slug":"st-peters-church-brotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53763","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter\u2019s Church, Brotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046.jpg\" alt=\"St. Peter\u2019s Church, Brotton\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046-472x300.jpg 472w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0046-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St. Peter\u2019s Church in Brotton. This was the third church to stand on this site. \u2019British History On-line\u2019 states: \u201dThe chapel was rebuilt in 1778 and is now used as a mortuary chapel. It is a plain rectangular stone edifice, measuring internally 67 ft. by 25 ft., with a tower 6 ft. square at the west end. It is lighted at the east end by a large round-headed window and by three similar but narrower windows on each side.\u201d The church was finally demolished in 1958, a little more information has come to light in an extract from a booklet \u201cKnow your Parish\u201d it states:- \u201cWhen St Margaret\u2019s was built St. Peter\u2019s became the mortuary chapel, this chapel was cleaned &amp; restored in 1901 but was demolished later. When the workmen removed some large flagstones near to where the altar had stood they discovered a tunnel which had been bricked up some time in the past. The registers commence in 1641, baptism to 1881: marriages to 1901 and burials to 1956?<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Peter Appleton and Julie Riddiough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>St. Peter\u2019s Church in Brotton. This was the third church to stand on this site. \u2019British History On-line\u2019 states: \u201dThe chapel was rebuilt in 1778 and is now used as a mortuary chapel. It is a plain rectangular stone edifice, measuring internally 67 ft. by 25 ft., with a tower 6 ft. square at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brotton-places","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62496,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions\/62496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}