North Creake nr. Burnham Westgate No. 1 / Creic / Creich / Creke / Creyk / Kreichten / North Creak
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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/northcreake/northcreake.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/northcreake/northcreake.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: taken from inside tha chancel; showing the lovely chancel screen; the font and cover are visible at the far back, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northcreake/northcreake.htm] [accessed 6 June 2013]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northbarsham/northbarsham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northbarsham/northbarsham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15141CRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, North Creake, Norfolk NR21 9AD
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSE of Burnham Market
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only?] / 19th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Now accounted a part of the hundred of Brothercross, was at the time of the grand survey, a member of the hundred of Gallow, [...] The church his dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a rectory anciently valued at 45 marks [...] In the reign of King Edward I. Sir John de Creyk was lord and patron, when there was also another church, called St. Michael in the Mount, in which there was service only once a week: it was parochial, had a right of baptism, and said to be the most ancient church. [...] Robert, archdeacon of Coventry, was rector about 1220." [i.e., first recorded rector here]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note: "Font. Circular C12 bowl.- Font cover. An enthusiastic piece of 1897." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The 1897 Norman-style font tub […] surmounted by a gothic font cover that opens to reveal beautiful painted panels of Christ and the children." [NB: with the available information it is difficult to ascertain whether the basin is Norman or not; it does appear to be too sharp for an ancient object, but its surface may have been re-tooled; the supporting base and plinth are certainly 19th-century]. [cf. Index entry for North Creake No. 2 for the disappeared church of St. Michael in the Mount].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.904746,
0.755312
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 54′ 17.09″ N,
0° 45′ 19.12″ E
UTM: 31U 349037 5864034
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1897
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: yes
Notes: rim-buffet type; painted with scenes on the inside
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-13 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
