{"id":22518,"date":"2015-02-06T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2015-02-06T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T02:34:47","slug":"the-diocese-of-niagara-still-busy-deconsecrating-and-demolishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-still-busy-deconsecrating-and-demolishing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Niagara still busy deconsecrating and demolishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara deconsecrated St. Paul\u2019s in Thorold in June of 2014. Plans to demolish it were thwarted by members of the community who wish to preserve it as an historic building. Representatives from the diocese, holding back the tears, let the community buy it for <em>a nominal fee. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22519\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/St.-Pauls-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"St. Paul's\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/St.-Pauls-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/St.-Pauls-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/St.-Pauls.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/5326552-baby-bump-helps-save-historic-thorold-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, the Anglican Church of Canada announced that the Synod of the Diocese of Niagara \u2014 the governing body of the diocese \u2014 has voted to enter into an agreement to sell historic former St. Paul\u2019s Anglican Church and the adjoining cemetery to the new Friends of St. Paul Port Robinson group, which McDonald heads, for a nominal fee.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement means the stately white building no longer faces the wrecking ball and could stand for future generations to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald,\u00a0 who can see the church from her front yard, was convinced by a friend to join a couple of other Port Robinson residents in an impromptu visit to Thorold city council last\u00a0 September.<\/p>\n<p>The stunned residents had just learned the 170-year-old church, which had been deconsecrated last June, was slated for demolition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara deconsecrated St. Paul\u2019s in Thorold in June of 2014. Plans to demolish it were thwarted by members of the community who wish to preserve it as an historic building. Representatives from the diocese, holding back the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-still-busy-deconsecrating-and-demolishing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,1950],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-st-pauls-thorold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}