The Creakes are two villages following the course of the little River Burn, of which North Creake is the larger. St. Mary the Virgin is a 13th century church, but drastically restored. There is a 15th-century hammerbeam roof in the nave, and there is a noteable 14th century Easter Sepulchre.
One mile north is Creake Abbey. It was founded in 1227 as a priory for Augustinian Canons by Sir Robert de Nerford, becoming an abbey four years later. After an outbreak of the plague it was dissolved in 1506, so escaped serious damage and destruction. Thankfully, much of it remains intact, though some was destroyed in a fire of 1484. The remains were consolidated in 1864. The adjacent 19th-century Abbey Farmhouse has incorporated parts of the dormitory and the cloisters.
Kenneth Kirkland
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The
display panel at Creake Abbey.
The
old Forge and Smithy, North Creake.
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