{"id":585468,"date":"2026-05-15T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585468\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:45:11","slug":"somerset-cricket-legend-gimblett-honoured-with-new-church-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585468\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset cricket legend Gimblett honoured with new church doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The career of a famous cricketer has been commemorated with a set of cricket-themed church doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The doors, which have cricket bats for handles, have been installed in honor of Somerset cricket legend Harold Gimblett at St George church in the village of Bicknoller, where he was born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harold played for England in the 1930s and is Somerset&#8217;s leading run scorer to this day, with more than 21,000 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harold&#8217;s grandson Richard Gimblett attended the opening ceremony and said: &#8220;I heard a lot of his achievements when I was young. He died when I was 10 but I still got to play cricket with him in the garden.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The career of a famous cricketer has been commemorated with a set of cricket-themed church doors. The doors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}