{"id":52,"date":"2007-06-10T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/06\/the-bishops-suite\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","slug":"the-bishops-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/the-bishops-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop&#8217;s suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little-appreciated feature of Castle (or University) College [54 46 33 N, 1 34 36 W] is that a couple of rooms are reserved per paying guests and not let out to students (for reasons that will be obvious!). Although the service and mod cons may not be quite to hotel standards, the two <a title=\"CATO link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/university.college\/conferences\/bandb\/staterooms\/\">&#8220;state rooms&#8221;<\/a> (the Chaplain&#8217;s suite and the Bishop&#8217;s suite) can&#8217;t be matched for &#8220;character&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/the-bishops-suite\/bishops-suite-main-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_main_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bishops suite main 1\" title=\"Bishops suite main 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/the-bishops-suite\/bishops-suite-main-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_main_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bishops suite main 2\" title=\"Bishops suite main 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The walls of the living room are decorated with 17th C Flemish tapestries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/the-bishops-suite\/bishops-suite-bedroom\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_bedroom-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bishops suite bedroom\" title=\"Bishops suite bedroom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_bedroom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_bedroom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_bedroom-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Bishops_suite_bedroom.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the four poster bed apparently dates from 1760&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little-appreciated feature of Castle (or University) College [54 46 33 N, 1 34 36 W] is that a couple of rooms are reserved per paying guests and not let out to students (for reasons that will be obvious!). Although the service and mod cons may not be quite to hotel standards, the two &#8220;state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,72,78],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips","tag-castle","tag-durham","tag-lodging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}