{"id":465,"date":"2010-02-14T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=465"},"modified":"2010-09-14T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T09:53:39","slug":"all-saints-church-cockermouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2010\/02\/all-saints-church-cockermouth\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints Church, Cockermouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situated at the base of a spire almost 200ft tall are the clock faces of <a title=\"All Saints Church, Cockermouth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/2010\/02\/all-saints-church-cockermouth\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Saints Church in Cockermouth<\/a>, Cumbria.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_870\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-870\" title=\"All Saints Church, Cockermouth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/465-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"All Saints Church, Cockermouth\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/465-203x152.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/465.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Saints Church, Cockermouth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The clock has recently undergone restoration and repair.<\/p>\n<p>William Wordsworth was baptised in this church.<\/p>\n<p>Some local commentators refer to this church as Cockermouths&#8217; Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>It is <a title=\"http:\/\/www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk\/cumbria\/1901\/cockermouth1901_f.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk\/cumbria\/1901\/cockermouth1901_f.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the tower is a peal of eight sweet-toned bells, purchased at a cost of \u00a3600; and a clock and chimes by J. Blaylock, of Carlisle, which cost \u00a3240.<\/p>\n<p>The carillon plays every three hours some favourite and well-known airs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not known if the bells currently chime.<\/p>\n<p>A refurbishment appeal is ongoing for the church and buildings. Further information can be found <a title=\"All Saints Church appeal , Cockermouth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allsaintsappeal.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"John Blaylock\" href=\"http:\/\/home.clara.net\/jnoblaylock\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Blaylock<\/a> for information supplied about the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situated at the base of a spire almost 200ft tall are the clock faces of All Saints Church in Cockermouth, Cumbria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,278,194,286,851,287,7,289,285,257,44,283,26,852,288,284,279,281],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building_clocks","tag-airs","tag-all-saints-church","tag-bells","tag-blacklock","tag-blaylock","tag-carillon","tag-carlisle","tag-chimes","tag-church-buildings","tag-clock-faces","tag-cockermouth","tag-commentators","tag-cumbria","tag-john-blaylock","tag-peal","tag-refurbishment","tag-spire","tag-william-wordsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}