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Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 17 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: east side
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Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B02: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: south-east side
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Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B03: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: south-west side
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Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: west side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B05: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: north-west side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B06: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: north-east side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B07: sacrament - holy orders
Scene Description: north side?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: south side?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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view of font and cover - south side
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Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font on its two-step plinth at the west end, just east of the tower arch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
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Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8?
Scene Description: now unrecognisable
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: on the plinth sides
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled
Scene Description: on the plinth sides
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MVC, 1998
Image Source: www.castles-abbeys.co.uk
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00765SOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1460?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Compton (1890) gives Walsingham; Nichols (1994) gives the fonts at Cley, Salle and Binham as cognates. Knott (2005) suggests Little Walsingham as similar [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of Saint Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: New Road, South Creake, Norfolk NR21 9LX
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the N of the county, 6 km S of Burnham Market, ENE of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Brothercoss / Hundred of Gallow [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: the Seven-Sacrament scenes are badly damaged (damaged early on) -- painted font (Cautley, 1949) reports traces of old paint on it) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for South Creake [variant spelling] in the Domesday surveu [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF8536/south-creake/] [accessed 13 April 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "King Henry I. before the death of Bishop Herbert [i.e., Herbert de Losinga, bishop of Norwich; d. 1119], confirmed the church of South Creak to the priory of Castleacre. John of Oxford Bishop of Norwich confirmed to Castleacre priory all the tithes of corn, the farms and houses, and all other things, excepting the offerings of the altar, and small tithe, which were the vicar's [...] The church was a rectory [...] The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary". Compton (1890) reports to the British Archaeological Association meeting of 1889: "In the early part of the year 1881 the Rev. J. Bowman, the then Vicar, obtained a Report on the condition of the church from Mr. John D. Sedding of Charlotte Street, Bedford Square. with a view of obtaining funds for its preservation. This Report embodies a very able account of the church, which with the permission of the Vicar and Mr. Sedding. I will give in the latter gentleman's own words, expressing, as they do, true archaeological feeling. [...] The font is very fine. [...] It is octagonal, and contains sculptures of the Crucifixion and the Seven Sacraments, similar to the font in Walsingham Church; but they are much defaced". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports: "The font is octagonal, the sculpture of which is good but much disfigured". Noted in James (1930). In Cautley (1949), who reports traces of old paint on this font. Studied in Nichols (1994), who writes of this Seven-sacrament font: "although completely disfigured, remaining block composition makes identification possible." Nichols (ibid.) gives the order of the scenes as: 1)Baptism; 2)Penance; 3)Eucharist; 4)Crucifixion; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Matrimony; 7)Holy Orders; 8)Confirmation, and dates it to the third quarter of the 15th century. Described in Jenkins (1999) simply as a "much abused Perpendicular Seven-Sacrament font." Described and fully illustrated in Knott (2005): "one of Norfolk's 20-odd seven sacrament fonts. It must have been very similar to the one at nearby Little Walsingham, but unfortunately the panels here are almost entirely defaced. However, it is still possible to make the sequence out, and to tell that the extra panel was the Crucifixion." The font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999), who note: "The stanchion for the font cover remains fastened to the roof ridge". The present cover is Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12thC(?) church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 349035 5862561
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.891513, 0.755959
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 53′ 29.45″ N, 0° 45′ 21.45″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century / Victorian
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain [NB: the original pulley of the old cover is still in place -- cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 200 fn3
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 78-84 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78304] [accessed 6 June 2013]
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Compton, C.H., "Creake, Norfolk: its Abbey and Churches [read 4 December 1889]", 46, (1890), Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1890, pp. 201-221; p. 215, 218 and fn1
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 207
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 474
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, [transcription in http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/SouthCreake.htm [accessed 26 August 2009] by E.C. "Paddy" Apling].
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 347-348 [et alia]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 661