Pendock

Pendock

Pendock Cross Church, Pendock
Pendock
 Pendock shown within Worcestershire
Population 329 (2001 Census)
OS grid referenceSO785325
Civil parishPendock
DistrictMalvern Hills
Shire countyWorcestershire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Gloucester
Postcode district GL19
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
List of places
UK
England
Worcestershire

Coordinates: 51°59′26″N 2°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 Tewkesbury and Ledbury.

Pendock has two churches, a shop, and a primary school. It borders the M50 motorway, and has a population of approximately 329. The Pendock CE Primary School is a small voluntary-controlled school with full healthy school status and a bronze eco award. Its postal address is in Gloucestershire but the school is in the Worcestershire Education Authority.

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."[1]

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.[2]

The civil parish constitutes two detached parts.[3]

Pendock Church

Main article: Pendock Church

Pendock Church is a redundant Anglican church standing to the southeast of the hamlet of Sledge Green in the parish of Pendock. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building,[4] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It stands in an isolated position overlooking and to the north of the motorway. To its north are the earthworks of a former medieval village.[5]

References

  1. "Noake's Worcestershire Page 296". users.totalise.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  2. "Worcestershire". churches-uk-ireland.org. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  3. Ordnance Survey mapping
  4. Historic England, "Parish Church, Pendock (1098789)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 10 September 2013
  5. The Church (no dedication), Pendock, Worcestershire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 29 March 2011

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