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Pendock
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Pendock Cross Church, Pendock
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Pendock
Location within Worcestershire
Population341 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SO785325
Civil parish
  • Pendock
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Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Gloucester
Postcode district GL19
Police West Mercia
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51°59′26″N2°18′52″W / 51.99053°N 2.31452°W / 51.99053; -2.31452

Pendock is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district in the county of Worcestershire, England, situated about halfway between the towns of Tewkesbury and Ledbury. The name is probably from old Welsh, possibly penn heddioc, meaning 'head of the barley field. [1]

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The civil parish constitutes two detached parts, [2] with Lower Pendock containing the main (present-day) village with its church, and school situated at or near Pendock Cross(roads), and Upper Pendock containing the hamlet of Sledge Green and the old parish church (see below); the parish of Berrow cuts between the two parts of Pendock parish. [3]

The population was recorded at 341 at the 2011 census [4] and was 329 at the previous census in 2001.

Pendock has two churches, and a primary school — the Pendock CE Primary School is a small voluntary-controlled school with full healthy school status and a bronze eco award.

The M50 motorway passes through the parish, with the nearest junction being number 2, to the west of Pendock.

History

Pendock Church dates from the 12th century. [5] Alterations and additions were made to it in the 14th century, and again in the 15th century when the west tower was built. [6] The church was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 1 November 1987. [7]

To its north are the earthworks of a former medieval village. [8]

The prolific nineteenth-century writer on Worcestershire John Noake, in his 1868 Guide to Worcestershire notes that: "Rev. W. S. Symonds, the eminent geologist, is lord of the manor, patron and incumbent of the living." [9]

Pendock Cross church, also known as The Redeemer Church, was built in 1899 as a temporary mission church, but is still in use. It has an outdoor font which is stacked up on bricks. [10]

Gadfield Elm Chapel, the oldest chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the world, is in the parish. [11]

Pendock Church

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Pendock Church

Pendock Church is a redundant Anglican church standing to the southeast of the hamlet of Sledge Green. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, [6] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It stands in an isolated position overlooking and to the north of the motorway.

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References

  1. ↑ Watts 2004 , p. 466
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey mapping
  3. ↑ Parish Council
  4. ↑ Neighbourhood statistics 2011 census data: Pendock CP
  5. ↑ The Church (no dedication), Pendock, Worcestershire, Churches Conservation Trust , retrieved 29 March 2011
  6. 1 2 Historic England, "Parish Church, Pendock (1098789)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 10 September 2013
  7. ↑ Diocese of Gloucester: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 2, retrieved 11 April 2011
  8. ↑ The Church (no dedication), Pendock, Worcestershire, Churches Conservation Trust , retrieved 29 March 2011
  9. ↑ "Noake's Worcestershire Page 296". users.totalise.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Worcestershire". churches-uk-ireland.org. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "Do you know where the oldest Mormon chapel in the world is?". BBC News. 11 November 2005. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015.

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