{"id":1619,"date":"2013-05-12T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:28:30","slug":"saint-michaels-church-in-basingstoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/saint-michaels-church-in-basingstoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Michael&#8217;s Church in Basingstoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2132\" height=\"2971\" data-attachment-id=\"1618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/saint-michaels-church-in-basingstoke\/2010-03-13d-20a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2132,2971\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;An antique door at Saint Michael&amp;#8217;s Church in Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A-215x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A-734x1024.jpg\" data-id=\"1618\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A.jpg\" alt=\"Old door of Saint-Michael's Church in Basingstoke, UK\" class=\"wp-image-1618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A.jpg 2132w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2010-03-13D-20A-574x800.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2132px) 100vw, 2132px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The antique door of a side entrance at Saint Michael&#8217;s Church shows its age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Michael&#8217;s Church is opposite Festival Place shopping centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Besides its age, the church bears the scars of aerial bombing by the Germans when they tried to destroy a nearby ammunitions factory during World War II. Next to the church stands a former school. The outside wall still bears the deep marks made by pupils who used it to sharpen their slate pencils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Michael&#8217;s Church is opposite Festival Place shopping centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Besides its age, the church bears the scars of aerial bombing by the Germans when they tried to destroy a nearby ammunitions factory during World War II. Next to the church stands a former school. The outside wall still bears the deep marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-q7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}