{"id":1610,"date":"2021-07-30T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=1610"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:30:29","slug":"charney-manor-weekend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/august-2021\/charney-manor-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Charney Manor Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthea Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pastoral Care Group’s and Elders’ visit to Charney Manor on 12-13 June was a wonderful experience in a delightful setting.<\/p>\n

The history of the manor house is fascinating and well known.<\/p>\n

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Christ Weeping over Jerusalem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One small feature in the west porch is a relief plaque representing ‘Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem’ (Luke 19, 41-42).<\/p>\n

Anne Watson discovered for us that the plaque was created by sculptor Sydney Longford Jones of Blewbury.<\/p>\n

The Wikipedia article about Charney Manor tells us that in 1914 Sydney was 26 and a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art. During the war, in accordance with his Quaker beliefs, he became a conscientious objector. As a result, he was imprisoned in Pentonville for 17 months.<\/p>\n

In prison, paints and other artistic materials were forbidden, but Sydney found a channel for his talents by using the porridge that was routinely fed to the inmates. He fashioned this into small figurines that could easily be crushed up if a prison warder turned up unexpectedly! Amazingly, two of these figurines have survived and form part of Sydney\u2019s archive in the possession of the Berkshire Record Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 508 \u2022 August 2021
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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Anthea Clarke The Pastoral Care Group’s and Elders’ visit to Charney Manor on 12-13 June was a wonderful experience in a delightful setting. The history of the manor house is fascinating and well known. One small feature in the west porch is a relief plaque representing ‘Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem’ (Luke 19, 41-42). Anne Watson … Continue reading Charney Manor Weekend<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":1556,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions\/1639"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}