Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- night-cellar-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels, Pennington, LA12 7NY
- OS grid reference
- SD 262 774
- Coordinates
- 54.18726, -3.13107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a church built in 1826, which incorporates a re-set Norman tympanum. The aspe and roof were added in 1926. It is constructed from stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The church features a four-bay nave with a west tower and an east apse. The nave contains two-light straight-headed windows adorned with Decorated tracery. The porch has a parapet and a gablet with shields, along with a pointed entrance that has a moulded arch. Inside the entrance, there is a re-set Norman tympanum depicting Christ with raised hands, along with a runic inscription that acknowledges Gamel the patron and Hubert the mason.
The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and features a two-light west window with a transom, straight-headed bell-openings with slate louvres, and an embattled parapet. There is a lean-to vestry on the north side. The canted apse has a high parapet with an inscription, and the five-light east window has a segmental-pointed head with flanking buttresses. The south gabled organ loft includes a three-light window.
Inside, the church has collar and tie-beam trusses with struts, a shallow corbelled chancel arch, and oil lamps mounted on brackets. The font is octagonal and in a goblet form. The tower contains 19th-century text boards. The octagonal pulpit is located at the junction with the organ loft. The chancel features recesses with shouldered lintels and an arcaded chancel rail, along with 12th-century fragments found in the porch.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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