{"id":4078,"date":"2017-07-28T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4078"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:35:21","slug":"churches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4078","title":{"rendered":"Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 260px; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/methodist_001-09a-400x465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4214 size-medium\" title=\"Methodist church\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/methodist_001-09a-400x465-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"Methodist church\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/methodist_001-09a-400x465-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/methodist_001-09a-400x465.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 30px; vertical-align: top;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Once someone decided to build a mill there was a need for stone with which to construct it, so quarries were opened up. Mills and quarries needed labour so cottages were built and roads laid out with the same stone. Homes needed warmth and the mills needed coal so coal mining developed. People needed the comfort of religion, so churches were built throughout the town to welcome a variety of faiths.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In this section we look at several of the town&#8217;s old churches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4080\">St John&#8217;s<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4082\">St Gregory&#8217;s<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4084\">Methodist Church<\/a> (originally a chapel);<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4086\">New Connexion<\/a> chapel;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4088#StOswalds\">St Oswald&#8217;s<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4090\">Wesleyan<\/a> chapel (Kerridge).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Your Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n<p>Please don't chuck out those historic documents and pictures!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4157\">Find out why here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once someone decided to build a mill there was a need for stone with which to construct it, so quarries were opened up. Mills and quarries needed labour so cottages were built and roads laid out with the same stone. Homes needed warmth and the mills needed coal so coal mining developed. People needed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4078","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18363,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4078\/revisions\/18363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}