{"id":1245011,"date":"2022-11-06T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/st-macartans-church-this-place-is-a-hidden-treasure\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T07:31:15","slug":"st-macartans-church-this-place-is-a-hidden-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/st-macartans-church-this-place-is-a-hidden-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"St Macartan&#039;s Church: \u2018This place is a hidden treasure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/_127401330_p0dcw5cs.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A church in County Tyrone has been voted church of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Judges were particularly taken with St Macartan\u2019s stained glass windows, which are 100 years old this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The windows were recently restored and feature a native of the area who would go on to help establish Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in New York. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Judges from the National Church Trust were impressed with St Macartan\u2019s architecture and praised its efforts to encourage community spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The church received funding for refurbishments through the Treasure Ireland project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Niall McCracken<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church in County Tyrone has been voted church of the year. Judges were particularly taken with St Macartan\u2019s stained glass windows, which are 100 years old this year. The windows were recently restored and feature a native of the area who would go on to help establish Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in New York. Judges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}