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I Location

II General Description

Church consists of three-bay nave with side aisles, clerestory, W tower, chancel, a N chapel off the chancel, and S porch. The N aisle is of the early 14thc., the clerestory, first two stages of the tower, chancel, and S porch are all of later 14/15thc. date. Restorations by G.G. Scott in 1844-45 and Temple Moore in 1895-96. The S aisle arcade is Romanesque and there is a 'Neo-Norman' font.

IV Interior Features

2. Arcades

c. Nave

(i) S arcade

Three bays, round-headed.

E respond 1: base is low, bulbous type; semi-circular respond carries a later 14thc. capital.

Pier 1: attic style base appears to be a replacement given its clean cutting. Round column carries a square multi-scallop capital. Necking is chamfered top and bottom and flat on face. There are double rows of nailhead between scallops. Shields of cones have two types of motifs: a scalloped, fluted five-lead semi-rosette coming down from abacus and a type, which consists of two horizontal crescent forms placed side by side delineating the upper portion of the shield while the lower has three crescent quirks. On the N face of this capital the cone left of center also has some deeply incised lines of no particular pattern. Abacus is plain on face with upper part chamfered and with a quirk on face.

W respond 1: base is as E respond 1, low, bulbous type. Semi-circular respond, necking as pier 1. Capital is similar to that in pier 1 except that there are short 'trumpets' between cones on the faces and only the angle cones are flanked by nailhead. Abacus as pier 1.

E respond 2: base and respond as in W respond 1, but respond is of much smaller diameter than W respond 1. Capital as in pier 1, multi-scalloped with alternating motifs on the shields, however here there is a great variety of motifs between the cones including nailhead, rope mould, parallel rolls coming to point, incisions, and combinations of these. Abacus as on pier 1.

W respond 2: base and respond as in W respond 1, but respond is of much smaller diameter than W respond 1. Square crocket capital with broad, flat leaves; fluted, scalloped leaves on crockets. Roll mould necking. Abacus flat on lower face then chamfer followed by quirk, fillet, quirk on upper face.

The arches are plain on the aisle side, but on the nave side consist of a single step and a chamfered label, flat on face. The width of the flat label face is twice that on bays 1 and 2 as on bay 3.

Dimensions

V Furnishings

1. Fonts

(i)

The Neo-Norman font is flatly cut and meant to mimick the 12thc. Coleby type.

VII History

Hougham fell in with the lands owned by Bishop Remigius of Lincoln in 1086; besides land he owned the manor here as well. At that time, the Domesday Survey records a church and a priest in the village. Robert the priest, who in 1086 was a monk in St Mary's, Stow, owned one carucate of land in Hougham

VIII Comments/Opinions

It is clear from the remaining wall portion between bays 2 and 3 that originally the nave here consisted of just the first two bays, probably without any aisles.

IX Bibliography