{"id":323,"date":"2019-12-08T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:42:34","slug":"revd-dr-thomas-stantial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/building-history\/church-people\/revd-dr-thomas-stantial\/","title":{"rendered":"Revd Dr Thomas Stantial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box  gradient-container-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last gradient-column-1 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-widget-area fusion-widget-area-1 fusion-content-widget-area\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-widget-area-1 {padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.fusion-widget-area-1 .widget h4 {color:#333333;}.fusion-widget-area-1 .widget .heading h4 {color:#333333;}<\/style><div id=\"alg_back_button_wp_widget-2\" class=\"widget alg_back_button_wp_widget\"><a href=\"javascript:history.back()\" class=\"alg_back_button_simple \" style=\"\"><< Return to previous section<\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-additional-widget-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box  gradient-container-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-2 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last gradient-column-2 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-872 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stantial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stantial-200x298.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stantial-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stantial.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Revd Dr Thomas Stantial<\/strong> (1825-1906) graduated from Hertford College, Oxford, with an MA (1856) and a Doctorate in Civil Law (1864). Prior to coming to St John\u2019s in 1884 he served as headmaster of two educational institutions, Bridgwater Grammar School, Somerset (1848-62) and Ramsgate College School (1862-75), being ordained to the priesthood while at the former. He was Vicar of St John the Evangelist Church, Clapham Rise, London, from 1875-84, and an Acting Chaplain to the Forces in 1884. He died in office at St John\u2019s, Bury, on Maundy Thursday, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>Stantial was an active member of the English Church Union (ECU) and president of the local branch. Founded in the 1860s, the ECU was committed to defending the Church&#8217;s faith, laws and practice, which it interpreted in a Catholic sense, in the face of those who defined the Church as Protestant and Reformed. Stantial disapproved of the idea of a memorial in Bury to Protestants martyred under the Catholic Queen Mary, referring to it in a sermon as \u2018raking up the ashes of the past.\u2019 He was strongly criticized for his views by Protestant organizations of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Stantial\u2019s <em>Test-Book for Students\u2026 Preparing for the Universities or for Appointments in the Army and Civil Service<\/em>, published in 1859, was widely used at the time by students cramming for the examinations for which it catered.<\/p>\n<p>Stantial had two daughters and a son. The latter, the Revd Arthur Evered Stantial (1859-1949), was sometime Rector of Bacton, near Stowmarket, and Vicar of St John the Baptist, Felixstowe. Stantial is memorialised in the Church by a<a href=\"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/building-history\/features-of-the-church\/windows\/stantial-thomas\/\"> pair of windows<\/a> at the east end of the south aisle.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsburystedmunds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}