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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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BWW02.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  
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BOW68.jpg (taken 26.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
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.
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NUR1SD27.jpg
"PENNINGTON WITH SWARTHMOOR"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Michael
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / / PENNINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75876 / SD2628977422"
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.

Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)

 sundial


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BWV98.jpg  Organ builder:-
"JARDINE &Co. LTD / MANCHESTER" (taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV97.jpg  Organ by Jardine and Co, Manchester.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV99.jpg  Mothers Union banner.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BOW69.jpg  List of vicars; rather better than the more common typed or handwritten list!
(taken 26.3.2008)  
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BMJ34.jpg (taken 10.7.2006)  
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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)  
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BOW66.jpg  Transcription of the runes:-
"KML SETI THESA KIRK HUBIRT M[ ]" (taken 26.3.2008)  
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BMJ35.jpg (taken 10.7.2006)  
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BOW67.jpg  Watercolour by Harold Moss, 1886.
(taken 26.3.2008)  

notes:-  
Gamel de Pennington gave the church in the time of Henry II who reigned 1154-89.

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1924
 to 1926
New chancel and porch, restoration of tower.

dedication
person:-    : St Michael
person:-    : Holy AngelsAll Angels
place:-   Pennington / Carlisle Diocese

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