Pendock
Pendock | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Gloucester | |
Postcode district | GL19 | |
Police | West Mercia | |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester | |
Ambulance | West Midlands | |
West Worcestershire | ||
Pendock is a village and
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]
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.
References
- ^ Watts 2004, p. 466
- ^ Ordnance Survey mapping
- ^ Parish Council
- ^ Neighbourhood statistics 2011 census data: Pendock CP
- ^ The Church (no dedication), Pendock, Worcestershire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 29 March 2011
- ^ a b Historic England, "Parish Church, Pendock (1098789)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 10 September 2013
- ^ Diocese of Gloucester: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 2, retrieved 11 April 2011
- ^ The Church (no dedication), Pendock, Worcestershire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 29 March 2011
- ^ "Noake's Worcestershire Page 296". users.totalise.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ^ "Worcestershire". churches-uk-ireland.org. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ^ "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.
Sources
- Watts, Victor Ernest, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107196896.