Monument record CRM 006 - Priory and Church of Creeting St Olave

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Summary

Priory and Church of Creeting St Olave (site of), 1087 to approx 1660, see details.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 1001 5768 (50m by 50m)
Map sheet TM15NW
Civil Parish CREETING ST MARY, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Priory and Church of Creeting St Olave (site of).
Founded pre 1087 as a cell of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary of Grestein in Normandy, by Robert, Count of Mortain (S1).
Appears only to have had a prior and was placed in the care of Priory of Wilmington, Sussex (main cell of Grestein in England). In 1347 the patronage was given to a merchant called Tydeman de Lymburgh and in 1360 it was sold to Sir Edmunde de la Pole (S2)(R1)(R2).
The church appears still to have been in existence in 1532 when John Pinkeney was buried in the chancel. Recorded as still being in use during the Commonwealth visitations between 1643-1660 (Lambeth Palace Library). The church had long since been demolished in 1764 (R3). Recorded as `in ruins' in 1783 (S3).
In the Deanery of Bosmere (R4).
Parish consolidated with Creeting All Saints circa 1711 (R2).
March 2001: Relocated to TM 0999 5767 (from OS plotted location of TM 0997 5764) based on recent fieldwalking, geophysical and trenched excavations by Nigel Macbeth and Creeting Churches project (S4).
Results of investigations summarised in (S5).

Sources/Archives (10)

  • <R1> (No record type): Knowles, D. & Hadcock, R.N.. 1971. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales (2nd ed). Knowles D and Hadcock R N, Med Rel Houses of England & Wales, 1971.
  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: 1911. Victoria County History, Suffolk (VCH). Domesday, 431.
  • <R2> (No record type): Page A, Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, 1844, 593.
  • <S2> Bibliographic reference: Victoria County History of Suffolk (Vol I 1911; Vol II 1907). VCH, Suffolk, 2, 1907, 153-154.
  • <R3> (No record type): Kirby, J.. Kirby J, Suffolk Traveller, 1764, 203.
  • <S3> Cartographic materials: Hodskinson, J.. 1783. The County of Suffolk surveyed.
  • <R4> (No record type): Norwich Taxation, 1254.
  • <S4> Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeologcial Service. Various. Macbeth N, Summary Survey & Excavation Report, May 2000.
  • <R5> Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM05NE10.
  • <S5> Bibliographic reference: Miscellaneous Bibliographic reference. ST Olave Archaeological Project, 'Creeting St Olave', Current Archaeology 189, Dec 2003, 406-9, ill.

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Record last edited

Jul 13 2006 4:06PM

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