Wood Ditton, tombstone 1929 (photo W M Palmer) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

St Mary, Woodditton

History of St Mary

Listed Building

Parish church. Earliest surviving structure early C13, two and half bays of north arcade, extended later in C13 or early C14. Chancel and south nave arcade rebuilt in mid C14. Tower and south porch C15; clerestorey late C15.

This is the burial place of William Simonds:

William Simonds’s epitaph:

Here lies my corpse who as the man

That lovd a so in a dripping pan:

But now believe me I am dead,

Now here the pan stands at my head.

Still for sop to the last I cry’d

But could not  eat and so I died.

My neighbours they perhaps may laugh

Now they do read my epitaph.

In the old burial ground to the west of the tower “The Dripping Pan Headstone” displayed its locally famous inscription ….. (R H Vincent, A Tanner Will Do)