Architectural Features
aisles mid C15, chancel 1456-69 by Robert Everard (architect of Norwich Cathedral spire), chancel demolished and rebuilt 1855-61 by Philip Boyce when remainder of church also restored.
In south aisle east window - this scene depicts St Michael weighing souls: the innocent souls can be seen in the pan at left whilst the devils seen at right attempt to counterbalance and outweigh them. St Mary's tower and nave > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853277 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853309 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853375 date from the 15th century but the chancel - with its monument to Jonathan Dawson, a 19th century rector, in form of an Easter Sepulchre > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853321. The artist is T. Earp, who also sculpted the decoration around the chancel arch > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853314 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853318 and the stone pulpit - was built in the 1850s by the little known architect, Philip Boyce. The east window is by Hardman & Co (1860s) > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853329. Both north and south aisle east windows display C15 stained glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853339 - this beautiful selection, mainly by the Norwich School, is the most noteworthy feature of St Mary's but there is also one of only 40-odd seven sacrament fonts dating from the 15th century, which has retained some of the original colouration > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853380 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853385. The benches have C15 poppyheads, some with carved figures and faces > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853365 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853369 and a small heart-shaped brass to Robert Alen (d. 1487) is on the chancel floor > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853360. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/martham/martham.htm In the churchyard, just north of the east wall, the grave of David and Anna Hinderer (1827–1870), Anglican missionaries who spent 17 years in Ibadan, Nigeria, can be found > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/853302. Anna Hinderer's account "Seventeen years in the Yoruba country" is available as a free download (from the University of Toronto) > http://www.archive.org/details/yorubacountry00hinduoft
On corbels rest timber wall posts supporting C19 hammerbeam roof: Pierced arch braces rise to hammerbeams, which in turn terminate in carved angels.
Stem has ogeed panels in which are carved relief figures of saints.
Chancel arch has colonnettes rising up to stone angels below foliate corbels.
Monument to Rev. Jonathan Dawson 1861 in form of elaborate Easter sepulchre.
Polygonal stone pulpit with cusped arched recesses and much foliate carving.
Simple wrought iron rood screen.