Listed buildings in Pennington, Cumbria

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Pennington is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains six listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". [1] The parish contains the village of Pennington, and is otherwise almost completely rural. The listed buildings consist of a pair of cottages, a sundial, a packhorse bridge, a church, a war memorial, and a set of stocks.

Pennington, Cumbria village in the United Kingdom

Pennington is a small village and civil parish in Furness, a region of Cumbria, England. Pennington lies between Ulverston, Rosside and Lindal. Pennington is located just off the nearby A590, with the nearest railway link in Ulverston.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

South Lakeland District in England

South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. The population of the non-metropolitan district at the 2011 Census was 103,658. Its council is based in Kendal. It includes much of the Lake District as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales.

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotes
Whinfield Farm Cottages
54°10′46″N3°08′50″W / 54.17936°N 3.14712°W / 54.17936; -3.14712 (Whinfield Farm Cottages)
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A pair of roughcast stone houses with a slate roof, two storeys, four bays, and a rear wing. Some windows are sashes, and others are mullioned with hood moulds. [2]
Sundial
54°11′14″N3°07′52″W / 54.18714°N 3.13115°W / 54.18714; -3.13115 (Sundial)
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1680The sundial is in the churchyard of St Michael's Church, and consists of an octagonal post with stop chamfers standing on a tall square base. It has a square dated cap, but no plate. [3]
Devils Bridge
54°12′24″N3°08′28″W / 54.20668°N 3.14111°W / 54.20668; -3.14111 (Devils Bridge)
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A packhorse bridge crossing Rathmoss Beck, it is in stone hand consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has thin voussoirs of varying sizes and a low parapet. It is also a scheduled monument. [4] [5] [6]
St Michael's Church
54°11′14″N3°07′52″W / 54.18727°N 3.13115°W / 54.18727; -3.13115 (St Michael's Church)
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1826–27The oldest surviving parts of the church are the nave and the tower. In 1926 Henry Paley replaced the chancel, added a porch, and replaced the windows and the roof. The church is in stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel with a polygonal east end, a north vestry, a south organ loft, and a west tower. The tower has diagonal buttresses, a two-light west window, and an embattled parapet. The porch has an entrance with a moulded pointed arch, above which are shields and a parapet with a gablet. The inner entrance has a re-set Norman tympanum containing a carved figure of Christ and runes. The windows contain tracery in Decorated style. [4] [7]
Pennington Parish War Memorial Cross
54°10′53″N3°07′20″W / 54.18128°N 3.12224°W / 54.18128; -3.12224 (War Memorial Cross)
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1920The memorial stands on a road junction, it is in sandstone, and consists of a simple Latin cross about 4 metres (13 ft) high. The shaft and arms are chamfered, and the shaft is on a square chamfered plinth on a base of four square steps. On the plinth and base are inscribed plaques that include the names of those lost in the two world wars. [8]
Stocks
54°11′13″N3°07′52″W / 54.18701°N 3.13121°W / 54.18701; -3.13121 (Stocks)
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UnknownThe stocks stand outside the churchyard walls of St Michael's Church. They consist of two upright stone posts with grooves on the inner faces. The timber boards have leg holes for two people. [9]

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Historic England Executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, tasked with protecting the historical environment of England

Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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