Church of St Hugh of Avalon is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1964. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Hugh of Avalon
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1964
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Hugh of Avalon, Stow Road, Sturton by Stow, LN1 2AE
- OS grid reference
- SK 890 804
- Coordinates
- 53.31363, -0.66529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Church of St Hugh of Avalon sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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