{"id":1239,"date":"2011-05-10T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:33:38","slug":"blackbur-cathedral-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2011\/05\/blackbur-cathedral-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Cathedral clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackburn Cathedral, is officially known as the Cathedral Church of Blackburn Saint Mary the Virgin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1240\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1240\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1240\" title=\"Blackburn Cathedral clock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0013-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"Blackburn Cathedral clock\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackburn Cathedral clock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre in Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p>The Cathedral has a ring of ten bells, cast by Messrs John Taylor \u00a0of Loughbrough in 1949 and considered by many ringers to be amongst the top dozen or so from a total of two hundred and fifty similar rings.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty steps lead from the ground floor to the belfry.<\/p>\n<p>Little is available online about the clock. \u00a0Can you help with something about the history? \u00a0Let us know via the comments area below.<\/p>\n<h3>More information<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Blackburn Cathedral\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackburncathedral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackburn Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the bells of <a title=\"Blackburn Cathedral bells\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com\/towers\/blackburn_cathedral.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Blackburn Cathedral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially known as the Cathedral Church of Blackburn Saint Mary the Virgin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,194,9,1222,322,1221,269,1218,1219,1224,1225,1220,1223],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building_clocks","tag-belfry","tag-bells","tag-caption","tag-cathedral-church","tag-heart","tag-john-taylor","tag-lancashire","tag-loughbrough","tag-messrs","tag-online-clock","tag-online-help","tag-ringers","tag-virgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}