{"id":66384,"date":"2013-07-28T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=66384"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:36:20","slug":"inside-st-leonards-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=66384","title":{"rendered":"Inside St. Leonard\u2019s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66361\" style=\"width:758px;height:481px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1-472x300.jpg 472w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1-1536x975.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Leonards-a-1-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>St Leonard&#8217;s is the parish church for Loftus. The original ancient edifice dating back to Saxon times was demolished in 1810, described by Rev. Graves &#8220;as a dark, mean and humble building.&#8221; The new church designed by Ignatius Bonomi,\u00a0a well known Durham architect who also planned the original Rectory, (this now called Linden House) above Dam end; the hall of Lord Dundas in the Hall Grounds\u00a0is also much in his style. The church was again enlarged around 1900, with the addition of a north aisle. The fine carved rood screen and rood cross, divide the nave from the chancel.<\/strong> <strong>This view of the interior of St. Leonard\u2019s Church in Loftus is from a postcard published by George Skilbeck, a Loftus photographer and stationer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Eileen Found and Maurice Grayson; detail courtesy of Nicholas Pevsner &#8220;Yorkshire- the North Riding&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>St Leonard&#8217;s is the parish church for Loftus. The original ancient edifice dating back to Saxon times was demolished in 1810, described by Rev. Graves &#8220;as a dark, mean and humble building.&#8221; The new church designed by Ignatius Bonomi, a well known Durham architect who also planned the original Rectory, (this now called Linden [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-central","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384","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=66384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78996,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions\/78996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}