The Church of All Saints Waterden is an ancient and spiritual place. There may have been a church on or near this site since the Anglo-Saxon period. Its fortunes have fluctuated over the centuries as the unusual features of the building suggest. The village it served has vanished, but All Saints’ remains active as a place of worship and is open to everyone.
All Saints is a Chapel of Ease in the Parish of South Creake with Waterden and part of the Creakes Benefice.The church’s remoteness and peaceful charm has attracted some well-known people. The playwright Alan Bennett has written about it in his diaries and the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster drew a delightful line drawing of the church.
All Saints’ was extensively restored in 2018-19 with generous support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Norfolk Churches Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Geoffrey Watling Charity and the Holkham Estate.
The architects were Nicholas Warns Architects and the principal contractors were Phoenix Build.
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The Benefice of North Creake, South Creake with Waterden, Syderstone with Barmer, and Sculthorpe has adopted the Church of England’s ‘Promoting a Safer Church Policy’.
We are committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within our community. To be free to worship and participate in the life of the Church, people need to feel safe and included.
Good safeguarding practice helps to ensure that everyone is welcome in a church community and shows how we value people and treat them with respect.
We have committed ourselves to take all steps within our power to keep vulnerable people in our Church communities safe from harm and from abuse of trust.
We aim to:
-- Promote a safer environment and culture
-- Safely recruit and support all those with any responsibility related to children and vulnerable adults within the Church
-- Respond promptly to every safeguarding concern or allegation
-- Care pastorally for victims/survivors of abuse and other affected persons
-- Care pastorally for those who are the subject of concerns or allegations of abuse and other affected persons
-- Respond to those that may pose a present risk to others
If you have a safeguarding concern, please contact the following person within the Benefice:
Parish Safeguarding Officer, David Cubitt
07867 764436 or [email protected]
You may also report a concern direct to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team:
01603 882345 or [email protected]
Safeguarding information is available from the Diocese of Norwich website at https://www.dioceseofnorwich.org/safeguarding.