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| St Michael, Pennington | ||
| St Michael and the Holy Angels Church | ||
| St Michael's Church | ||
| Pennington Church | ||
| locality:- | Pennington | |
| civil parish:- | Pennington (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| locality type:- | runic inscription | |
| coordinates:- | SD26267741 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2677 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| source data:- | Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and
Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by
Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11
English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939. NUR1SD27.jpg "PENNINGTON WITH SWARTHMOOR" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Michael |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / / PENNINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75876 / SD2628977422" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Church. 1826 incorporating re-set Norman tympanum; aspe and roof, 1926. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roofs. 4-bay nave with west tower and east apse. Nave has 2-light straight-headed windows with Decorated tracery. Porch has parapet and gablet with shields, painted entrance with moulded arch. Inner entrance has re-set Norman tympanum with figure of Christ with raised hands and ruric inscription recording Gamel the patron and Hubert the mason. Tower has diagonal buttresses and 2-light west window with transom; straight-headed bell-openings with slate louvres; embattled parapet. Lean-to vestry to north. Canted apse has high parapet with inscription; 5-light east window has segmental-pointed head, flanking buttresses; south gabled organ loft has 3-light window. Interior has collar and tie-beam trusses with struts. Shallow corbelled chancel arch. Oil lamps on brackets. Octagonal font in goblet form. Tower has C19 text boards. Octagonal pulpit to junction with organ loft. Chancel has recesses with shouldered lintels and arcaded chancel rail. C12 fragments in porch." |
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1 cross slab grave cover, base of tower. |
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| Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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 BWV98.jpg Organ builder:- "JARDINE &Co. LTD / MANCHESTER" (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV97.jpg Organ by Jardine and Co, Manchester. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV99.jpg Mothers Union banner. (taken 13.7.2012)  BOW69.jpg List of vicars; rather better than the more common typed or handwritten list! (taken 26.3.2008)  BMJ34.jpg (taken 10.7.2006)  BOW65.jpg Old tympanum, with an inscription in runes, roughly meaning:- "GAMEL FOUNDED THIS CHURCH HUBIRT MASON BUILT IT" Now mounted in an interior wall. (taken 26.3.2008)  BOW66.jpg Transcription of the runes:- "KML SETI THESA KIRK HUBIRT M[ ]" (taken 26.3.2008)  BMJ35.jpg (taken 10.7.2006)  BOW67.jpg Watercolour by Harold Moss, 1886. (taken 26.3.2008) |
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| notes:- |
Gamel de Pennington gave the church in the time of Henry II who reigned 1154-89. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| person:- | architect : Paley, Henry A |
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| date:- | 1924 to 1926 |
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| New chancel and porch, restoration of tower. |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Michael |
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| person:- | : Holy Angels; All Angels |
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| place:- | Pennington / Carlisle Diocese | |
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