Pennington / Penigto / Peningtun / Peninton / Pennigetun

There is an entry for Pennington[variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD2677/pennington/] [accessed 9 April 2019] which includes this and over a dozen other places; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whitaker (1823) notes the church here documented in 1230. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "From the complaints of the monks of Furness it appears that Pennington was originally a chapel under Urswick, [...] and they accordingly objected to its being granted to the priory of Conishead as a rectory. An agreement was about 1200 made by which the priory secured it, [...] and the priors accordingly retained the rectory till the Suppression." The present church, adds the VCH entry, "is a small stone building erected in 1826 on the site of an older church. [...] Of this ancient building, however, nothing remains in situ, though in the grounds of Fell Mount, now the vicarage, are four stones of transitional character which have formed the capitals of octagonal piers. [...] The font is a relic of the ancient church now restored after lying for many years at Fell Mount. It has an octagonal bowl of red sandstone, the sides of which, however, except on the east where there is a blank shield, are quite plain, and is probably of 15th-century date. The bowl only is ancient." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD2628977422] notes; "Church. 1826 incorporating re-set Norman tympanum; aspe and roof, 1926. [...] Octagonal font in goblet form."