[2][1] Material from his thesis was later published in two volumes (1987 and 1990), titled English gothic choir-stalls.
[4] His specialist subject is English church woodwork, especially carved chests, choir-stalls, and misericords.
[5][6] He is recommended on the Victoria and Albert Museum website for further information on a late medieval carved chest from Suffolk.
[8][9] In 2012, Tracy was commissioned, along with Hugh Harrison, Eddie Sinclair and John Allan, to survey the early 14th century bishop's throne in Exeter Cathedral, "one of the most magnificent pieces of medieval woodwork in Europe".
[30] In 2022 Charles Tracy donated a part of his photo collection to the project Stalla - Medieval choir stalls database managed by the Centre for Art Historical Documentation (CKD) of the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).