Visitors to this website, just like our real visitors, come for many different reasons and with differing levels of knowledge about the Christian faith, about church buildings and church history. We have tried to design the site so, whoever you are and whatever your needs, you will find the information you want.

We have therefore quite deliberately built the site with two starting points. If you know your Common Worship from your Book of Common Prayer, your Clerestory from your Chancel and your Anglo-Catholic from your Evangelical, go to About us.

And if that sounds like gobbledygook but you want to know more about our beautiful church and why we love it, go to Visitors.

We also have a FAQs page where we answer, or attempt to answer, some of the more commonly asked questions about our Church and our Christian faith.

But if none of those are right for you, maybe we are being too clever so just dive right in.

We have been in Interregnum since 27 March when Fr Andrew Thomson celebrated his last service after 18 years as our parish priest.

Following a second round of interviews in September, an appointment as his successor has unfortunately still not been made.  A public statement about the situation from the Bishop of Lynn was read in the churches of the Benefice on 9 October.  The statement can be downloaded here Bishop of Lynn's Public Statement.  A copy of the Creakes Benefice Profile can be downloaded from this site.

During the Interregnum, whilst we have no priest, our Churchwarden, Barbara Allen takes the lead in maintaining the life of the church.  Barbara's contact details can be found here.

For the keen or the curious, full documentation about the Practicalities of the Interregnum and the process of Finding a New Priest can be found in this extract from the Norwich Diocesan Handbook Diocesan Handbook extract Chapter 3.  The full Handbook can be also be downloaded from the Diocesan website.

We will greatly miss the presence of Fr Andrew and his family, but at the same time, we look forward to the appointment of his successor to guide us in the furtherance of God’s work as we enter a new chapter in the life of our church.

Sadly Fr Roger Arguile is no longer contributing Thought for the Week.  His Thought for the Week 25 December 2011 was his last and the future of this vital part of the website is now uncertain.  Fr Roger has contributed a Thought weekly since June 2008.  It is his hope that within some of those hundreds of contributions his remarks have been helpful to the soul's search.  We in turn thank Fr Roger deeply for his hard work and dedication.

The Webmaster will attempt to find alternative contributors.  If you have in interest in contributing a Thought either regularly or just occasionally, please contact him to discuss the matter.  In the meantime an archive of the full set of Thoughts for 2011 is available here Thought for the Week Archive 2011.

As an alternative source of mental stimulus, we now have a feed to Nick Baines's Blog which you can find in the right hand column of the Home page.  Nick Baines is Bishop of Bradford.