Nominal: 753.5 Hz Weight: 1310 lbs Diameter: 40" Bell 1 of 9
Founded by John Taylor & Co 2015
Dove Bell ID: 4896 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
North Creake: St Mary
Overview
Grid reference: TF 854 377
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Wheelchair accessible Local shop(s) or amenities nearby Rood Screen Angel Roof Stained Glass Bell Ringing Concerts/Live Music
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 561 m²
Exterior Description
C.1300 chancel, south porch and south door, C15 nave and north aisle west tower. Restored 1897. Knapped and rubble flint with stone dressings, lead roofs. West tower, nave and north aisle, south porch, chancel. Tower, perhaps 1503, ashlar plinth, knapped flint to west face only. 4 stages, with set-off buttresses with ashlar quoins to 4 angles. 4 panel C15 west door with tracery spandrels panels. Arch with traceried spandrels. Fine 4 light west window with tracery head and drip mould. 2-light square head Perpendicular window above. Bell chamber has 4 3-light Perpendicular tracery windows. Battlemented parapet with flushwork tracery and shields. Inscription reported on east side to Ralph Blondeville, 1503. 4 bay nave has 4 lower and 4 clerestorey 3-light Perpendicular tracery windows unusual 2 storey south elevation explained by addition of later C15 knapped flint clerestorey. 4 south buttresses with set-offs and ashlar facings, same details as those of tower, possibly 1503. Single C14 south porch with outer arch, north and south quatrefoils, richer entrance arch without bases or capitals. Nave north side has Perpendicular 2-light west window, 2 2-light straight headed north windows 3-light west window, perhaps C17. Perpendicular north door Decorated 4-bay chancel associated with date of 1301 recorded in no longer extant east window inscription to William Careltone : "construxit hunc cancellum Anno Domini MCCCI". Chancel south side has 2 central 2 light "Y" tracery windows with sub-cusped trefoiled lights and trefoil spandrel, 2 north and south Perpendicular 3-light tracery windows. South priest's door and 2 set-off buttresses. Roof heightened above line of c.1300 windows. East gable has 5 light window with 4 trefoils and central spandrel quatrefoil, tracery perhaps of 1897 restoration. Paired set-off angle buttresses. Chancel north side has one c.1300 central 2 light window with trefoil headed lights and trefoil spandrel. One large south 3-light window c.1300 with 2 canted and one upright trefoils in spandrel. C19 north vestry addition has reused C14 west window.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
Perpendicular tower arch and 4 bay north arcade with octagonal piers and with double hollow chamfered arches. Fine 5 bay Perpendicular single hammerbeam double frame nave roof. Semi-octagonal moulded wall posts on corbels with bases and capitals, arched wall plates, moulded brackets supporting hammerbeams with liturgically vested angels with instruments. Hammerbeams support pierced tracery spandrelbrackets above with moulded arched principals. Outstretched winged angels at junctions with moulded purlins and bosses at junction with ridge. At the wall plate a moulded coving section has lower brattishing, 2 out-stretched winged angels to each half bay, upper painted chevron moulding, traceried panel and crowning brattishing. Some colour surviving. Circular stone font bowl, perhaps C12, elaborate painted and carved font cover, 1897. Nave south east sepulchre and piscina. Nave and aisle outer walls have C18 panelling with cornice. North aisle has Perpendicular arch braced roof with central purlin and chamfered rafters. Royal Arms of Charles I over north aisle north door. Fine traceried 7-light north aisle screen, partly C15. North aisle altar 1978, incorporating 4 C14 painted panels of Fortitude, Temperance, Mercy and Justice. Chancel arch Decorated or Perpen- dicular. C15 rood stairs door at north-east in north aisle, and rood loft door against chancel arch. Elaborate c.1897 Decorated' detail oak carved rood screen, similar to altar and reredos by Hicks. Indistinct medieval Doom painting above chancel arch. 4 bay chancel has arched braced hammerbeam roof similar to nave, largely restored and repainted 1877. Fine but over-restored south side sedilia and piscina, mid-C14, with corbels and painted diapering. North side heavily restored c.1300 Easter Sepulchre. Cusped and sub-cusped arch, gable with open work tracery, crockets and finial, outer buttresses with finials. Chancel floor 1897. Brass: a civilian, holding a church as donor, possibly Sir William Calthorpe who claimed in his will (1495) to have rebuilt the church, giving a possible date for the clerestorey and roofs. Elaborate carved and painted altar and reredos, c.1897 by Hicks of Newcastle on Tyne. Church restored 1897 by Frederick Preedy architect, as bequest of Bishop Lloyd, Rector 1894-1903. See St. Mary the Virgin North Creake, (anon), (Fakenham) c.1980.
Bells
Nominal: 1504.5 Hz Weight: 447 lbs Diameter: 25.5" Bell 2 of 9
Founded by John Taylor & Co 2015
Dove Bell ID: 32944 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1418 Hz Weight: 444 lbs Diameter: 26" Bell 3 of 9
Founded by John Taylor & Co 2015
Dove Bell ID: 32945 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1259.5 Hz Weight: 468 lbs Diameter: 27" Bell 4 of 9
Founded by John Taylor & Co 2015
Dove Bell ID: 32946 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1127.5 Hz Weight: 487 lbs Diameter: 28.75" Bell 5 of 9
Founded by Thomas Newman 1744
Dove Bell ID: 32947 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: turned Cracked: No
Nominal: 998.5 Hz Weight: 558 lbs Diameter: 30.25" Bell 6 of 9
Founded by Thomas Newman 1744
Dove Bell ID: 32948 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: turned Cracked: No
Nominal: 944 Hz Weight: 807 lbs Diameter: 34" Bell 7 of 9
Founded by Osborn & Arnold 1775
Dove Bell ID: 32949 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: turned Cracked: No
Nominal: 839.4 Hz Weight: 896 lbs Diameter: 36" Bell 8 of 9
Founded by Thomas Newman 1744
Dove Bell ID: 32950 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: turned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1234 Hz Weight: 450 lbs Diameter: 27.25" Bell 9 of 9
Founded by Osborn & Arnold 1774
Dove Bell ID: 32951 Tower ID: 11557 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: turned Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 854 377
Burial and War Grave Information
The church/building is consecrated.
The churchyard has been used for burial.
The churchyard is used for burial.
The churchyard has war graves.
Churchyard Structures
War Memorial
Grave
War Grave
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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| Name | Status | Number found in this site |
|---|---|---|
| Common horse chestnut | Veterantree | 1 |
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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