Architectural Features
C20 concrete tiles on nave
C15 square west tower with diagonal staged buttresses with flushwork panels.
Stepped parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles and carved panels set in flushwork.
doorway flanked by niches containing figures on pedestals.
4-light west window, C15.
Two 3-light C15 windows, much repaired.
C15 south porch, restored by H. Rider Haggard in 1896
Traceried 2-leaf south door, C15.
C15 3-light east window.
2-light C14 window at north-west corner.
Interior: C15 nave roof, restored C19: principals have arch-braces and wallposts set on head-corbels.
C15 tower arch with engaged shafts and polygonal capitals
Screen much restored but containing some C15 work.
![Depicted are the effigies of Philip (died 1490) and Margery Bozard with their four sons and five daughters.
St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406281 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406299 is located on an elevation beside a by-road to Thwaite, east of the main Bungay to Norwich road. [[716934]] was the home of the Rider Haggard family, perhaps best known for the author of 'King Solomon's Mines' and 'She' - Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was born in West Bradenham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/710108. The church dates from the 15th century but an earlier C13 lancet window in the chancel wall indicates that the present building as we see it today was built onto an older structure. St Mary's was extensively restored in the 19th century and the stained glass windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406308 date from that time. The church still houses its original C14 octagonal font http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406347 as well as fragments of medieval glass in one of the windows and two brasses.](https://storage.googleapis.com/natbase-94192.firebasestorage.app/observations/2B8bxkdFrRaNBKHKuJcfbhTowL22/1775902465866_1406326_9f42a8c5.jpg)
Brasses to Roger Bozard and to Philip and Margery Bozard.
Depicted are the effigies of Philip (died 1490) and Margery Bozard with their four sons and five daughters. St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406281 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406299 is located on an elevation beside a by-road to Thwaite, east of the main Bungay to Norwich road. [[716934]] was the home of the Rider Haggard family, perhaps best known for the author of 'King Solomon's Mines' and 'She' - Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was born in West Bradenham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/710108. The church dates from the 15th century but an earlier C13 lancet window in the chancel wall indicates that the present building as we see it today was built onto an older structure. St Mary's was extensively restored in the 19th century and the stained glass windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406308 date from that time. The church still houses its original C14 octagonal font http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1406347 as well as fragments of medieval glass in one of the windows and two brasses.
North-east aisle window a memorial to Sir Henry Rider Haggard who was a church warden while resident in Ditchingham.
C19 pulpit, stone, polygonal with traceried panels and stone steps.
Font, C15, octagonal with shields and roses in traceried panels around bowl, head corbels below bowl and shafts around stem, all on an octagonal step with quatrefoiled riser.
TM3292 : St Mary, Ditchingham, Norfolk - Font
In North-west wall of Nave, a World War I memorial erected 1920 with panelled black marble and life size bronze effigy of soldier designed by Derwent Wood.