St Mary

Angle buttressed C15 tower in the main of brick, set on a moulded ashlar plinth with embattled brick parapet with single gargoyle to each side, the east side, however, with 2.

West side with moulded arched C15 doorway with hood mould, worn label stops and brick relieving arch.

Flanking the head are single arched and cusped ashlar niches containing single C20 carved figures.

Single similar niche and figure over the doorway but with hood mould and finial, the band rises here to accommodate the niche.

Above to the west side, is a single C14 arched 2 light window with cusped tracery, hood mould and worn human head label stops.

North wall has a single C14 window with 3 arched and cusped lights and cusped tracery under a flat arch, hood mould and label stops.

To the left is a C14 moulded arched doorway with hood mould and label stops.

Further left is a single restored C14 segmental arched window with 3 arched and cusped lights, the single central light with brattished transom and arched and cusped light under.

On the far left is a single blocked C16 brick and ashlar window with 3 arched lights and tracery.

The east wall has a single heavily restored early C14 arched 2 light window with cusped Y tracery.

The C15 rendered brick clerestory has 5 segmental pointed arched windows each with 2 arched and cusped lights, some tracery, hood mould and label stops.

The north side with 2 worn gargoyles has a single restored early C14 arched window with cusped Y tracery as, hood mould and C19 label stops.

To the left is a single 3 light early C14 arched window with cusped intersecting tracery, hood mould and human head and animal label stops.

The south chancel with 2 gargoyles has a single 3 light early C14 arched window with cusped intersecting tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

To the left is a single blocked arched window with hood mould and worn C14 label stops.

Further left is a moulded arched doorway, the sill band forming a hood mould and a single early C14 arched window with cusped Y tracery, hood mould and worn label stops.

The south aisle with continuous sill band broken by the buttresses and porch has in the south wall 2 heavily restored 3 light C14 windows each with arched and cusped lights and cusped tracery under a flat arch.

5 bay C13 nave arcades with circular columns and responds, moulded capitals with some unfinished decoration.

C14 double chamfered chancel arch supported on octagonal responds with moulded capitals.

The north wall of the chancel incorporates C12 zigzag masonry.

Early C14 double piscina to south wall with 2 arched and cusped niches with decorative blind tracery to the spandrel, continuous hood mould with right human head label stop.

To the right is the early C14 tripartite sedilia with inner arched and cusped order and outer moulded arches with moulded jambs and bases.

South aisle with C14 ogee arched and cusped piscina.

East wall with corbel being the remains of C12 volute capital.

C15 font with octagonal bowl, the panels decorated with angels holding shields.

TF4418 : Tydd St Mary, St. Mary's Church: c15th octagonal bowl font with angels holding shields on each face 6

© Michael Garlick

C17 oak chest.

C15 nave roof with moulded and chamfered beams and curved braces.

Memorials.

Incised late C14 slab to William de Tide, of knight with sword, dagger and lion at feet.

Incorporated within the north wall are fragments of a C15 tomb chest with cusped rectangles contanining single shields.

Good memorial to Sir Olement Trafford, 1786.

A good memorial to Iohannis Trafford, 1719, by Walton of Wisbech.

Fine memorial to Sigismond Trafford, 1740, the tablet flanked by turned down torches and foliate drops which support decorative brackets.