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St Mary Virgin

Fen Ditton

Cambridgeshire

North aisle c.1300 and chancel.

Architectural Features

Nave arcades, clerestoreys, south aisle and south porch C15.

West tower rebuilt reproducing early C13 details.

Walls of flint and limestone, some reused medieval stone with Barnack limestone and clunch dressings.

South aisle and porch with plain parapets and grotesque gargoyles.

Interior: Nave arcades of four bays and chancel arch C15, with two-centred arches of two wide hollow- and double-ogee- moulded orders, attached shafts and semi-octagonal moulded capitals and bases.

Matching pair of C14 niches in chancel with ogee - cinquefoil heads and traces of colour.

Nave roof C15, of four bays with braced king posts, moulded tie beams with curved braces to wall posts.

C15 pair of niches in south aisle and piscina.

C14 scissor-braced chancel roof.

North and south aisle roofs C15, of five bays with moulded principal rafters and purlins.

Door to south aisle medieval, cased in modern wood.

Font with octagonal bowl and quatrefoil panels late C14.

For monuments and floor slabs see R.C.H.M. report.

Stained glass in south aisle east window by Kempe, 1898.

Pulpit and lectern 1876, organ 1877.