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St Mary

Woodditton

Cambridgeshire

Earliest surviving structure early C13, two and half bays of north arcade, extended later in C13 or early C14.

Architectural Features

Chancel and south nave arcade rebuilt in mid C14.

Tower and south porch C15

clerestorey late C15.

Aisles and clerestoreys with embattled parapets, cornices with fleurons and lion mask gargoyles.

Nave roof C19, king post construction with some original carved details.

Aisle roofs of eight bays C15, with some timbers restored.

Chancel screen, C14, with painted panels, partly restored.

Paired niches flank east window, late C14 or C15.

Mediaeval glass in south chancel window.

Tower arch C15 has C17 graffiti of two post windmills, a witch with tall hat, and figure with mask.

Tower screen, iron with brass details possibly French baroque dated and inscribed 'Petrus Rasorius Oeconomus 1805'.

Set at cill level of C14 east window of north aisle fragments of alabaster figures from a reredos.

South door C15.

Porch roof original with carved bosses at intersections of moulded beams and two carved angels.

Wall paintings in nave below clerestorey.

Poppy-head pews C15, partly restored.

Font with octagonal bowl, panelled stem and moulded base set on older base with spurs.

Brass monument to Henry English, d. 1393, and his wife.

Burrell and Benton 'Alabaster Carvings'.