{"id":62541,"date":"2010-02-15T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62541"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:51:11","slug":"st-peters-church-brotton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62541","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter&#8217;s Church, Brotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62540\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.631578947368421;width:785px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1-489x300.jpg 489w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/st-peters-1-400x245.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>An image of the old St. Peter\u2019s Church in Brotton, demolished about 1958 \u2013 all that\u2019s left now is the plinth on which it stood &#8211;  (near to the graves of its priests).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Raymond Brown. Thanks to Simon Chapman&nbsp; and Ray Brown for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>An image of the old St. Peter\u2019s Church in Brotton, demolished about 1958 \u2013 all that\u2019s left now is the plinth on which it stood &#8211; (near to the graves of its priests).<\/p>\n<p>A little more information has come to light in an extract from a booklet \u201cKnow your Parish\u201d it states:- \u201cWhen St [&#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-62541","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\/62541","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=62541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79417,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62541\/revisions\/79417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}