Hougham / Hacam / Hacham
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
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B02: design element - architectural - column - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12669HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17531535
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Hougham, Grantham NG32 2JF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1400 250648
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A1, 10 km NNW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Loveden [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared fontZ? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for this Hougham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8844/hougham/] [accessed 1 July 2025], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. A mystery: neo-Norman, circular, with intersecting arcading very flatly cut. A hardly visible date is said to read 1662 -- can this really be so?" [NB: the older parts of the building may date to pre-Conquest times, according to Pevsner & al. (ibid.)]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, with columns
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with columns)
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 399