{"id":54251,"date":"2009-11-25T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54251"},"modified":"2016-12-15T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T12:06:06","slug":"ebenezer-chapel-north-road-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54251","title":{"rendered":"Ebenezer Chapel, North Road, Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Congs-church-North-rd-Loftus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"908\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Congs-church-North-rd-Loftus-1.jpg 908w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Congs-church-North-rd-Loftus-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Congs-church-North-rd-Loftus-1-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Congs-church-North-rd-Loftus-1-400x534.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The caption on this postcard view says \u201dOld Congregational Church, Loftus\u201d, the plaque between the windows says \u201dEbenezer Chapel\u201d, so they were both right.\u00a0 Built in 1827 in North Road (then called Lambs Lane), it accommodated 180 people and over the doorway was an inscription \u201dSi deus a nobis est qui contra nos?\u201d which in English means \u2019If God is with us who shall be against us?\u2019 The church was replaced in 1906 by the church built on the former monumental mason\u2019s yard at the corner of West Road and Westfield Terrace to accommodate more people; the \u201dEbenezer\u201d when disused later became the Parish Hall. \u00a0Now refurbished as a private property and currently up for sale, this fine old building looks as austere now as it did then. The obligatory group of onlookers makes this picture, don\u2019t you think? Can anybody explain why it looks like a building of two halves, with each half a mirror image of the other?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Ann Wedgewood &amp; Keith Bowers, information courtesy of Jean Wiggins.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The caption on this postcard view says \u201dOld Congregational Church, Loftus\u201d, the plaque between the windows says \u201dEbenezer Chapel\u201d, so they were both right. Built in 1827 in North Road (then called Lambs Lane), it accommodated 180 people and over the doorway was an inscription \u201dSi deus a nobis est qui contra nos?\u201d which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-north","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54251","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=54251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54252,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54251\/revisions\/54252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}