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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: east side

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

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

Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/southcreake/southcreake.htm] [accessed 4 September 2006]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: west side

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

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

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?

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?

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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Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8?

Scene Description: now unrecognisable

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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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled

Scene Description: on the plinth sides

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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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: on the plinth sides

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

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

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

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 - south side

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 font and cover in context

Image Source: www.castles-abbeys.co.uk

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE (request email sent 8 January 2005) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover in context - west side

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 00765SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Saint Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: New Road, South Creake, Norfolk NR21 9LX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, centre aisle

Date: 1460?

Century and Period: 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]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.891513, 0.755959

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 29.45″ N, 0° 45′ 21.45″ E

UTM: 31U 349035 5862561

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

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

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; r["References"]

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999