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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel and Diana in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/a_cumbrian_miscellany.html] [accessed 9 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and its cover are partially visible among the benches on the left side; at the far back, on the west wall, is an old tympanum from the pre-1200 church here

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view of church interior - tympanum

Scene Description: former tympanum of an external portal now mounted inside the church, at the west wall of hte nave

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view of church interior - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: the Runic inscription is said to refer to the founder of the church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22084PEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [aka St Michael and the Holy Angels]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Pennington/Loppergarth Rd, Pennington, Ulverston LA12 7NY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cumbria, North West

Directions to Site: Located just N of the Pennington Beck, W of the A590, WSW of Ulverston, NE of Dalton-in-Furness

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle

Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday] -- formerly Lancashire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church Notes: a Sheela-na-gig from this church is now at http://www.kendalmuseum.org.uk/about-us/the-collections/curators-choice/sheela-na-gig [accessed 9 April 2019], and wriiten about in http://www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/pennington/ [accessed 9 April 2019]

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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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1873, -3.1312

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 11′ 14.28″ N, 3° 7′ 52.32″ W

UTM: 30U 491439 6004369

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823