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
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SD 27 NE, 16/102

PENNINGTON, Church of St Michael

II

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, pointed entrance with moulded arch. Inner entrance has re-set Norman tympanum with figure of Christ with raised hands and runic 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.

Listing NGR: SD2628977422

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