Church Of St Hugh Of Avalon

The Church of St Hugh of Avalon is a parish church built in 1879 by John Loughborough Pearson. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features plain tiled roofs adorned with decorated ridge tiles. The west gable has a plain tiled finish, and there are double dentillated eaves along with an eastern bell turret that has a plain tiled base, wooden slat bell openings, a squat lead spire, and a weathervane.

The church includes a narthex, nave, north vestry, and an apsidal chancel with a rectangular north recess. The low narthex has a lean-to roof and three rectangular windows dressed with ashlar. Above the narthex, the gable rises and features three pointed, cusped, ashlar-dressed lights. On the north side, there is a large projected stack to the west and two windows to the east, each with three pointed lights dressed in ashlar. The north vestry has a plain west wall and a north wall with three ashlar-dressed lights, including a central taller light with an ashlar hood mould. The east wall has a pointed doorway with an ashlar hood mould and a plank door, along with a plain north recess.

The tall, broad apsidal east end has five plain, pointed, ashlar-dressed lights. The south side of the chancel and nave features two two-stage buttresses and three three-light, pointed, ashlar-dressed windows. The south wall of the narthex includes a pointed doorway with an ashlar hood mould and a plank door.

Inside, the church has a very plain interior with double dentillated eaves. There is a pointed doorway leading to the north vestry with a plank door, a plain pointed arch to the north recess, 19th-century tie beam roofs, a 19th-century screen, and an altar rail. A plain aumbry is located in the south wall of the apse, featuring a shallow triangular head.