Church Of St Hugh Of Avalon

SK 88 SE STURTON-BY-STOW STOW ROAD (east side)

4/61 Church of St Hugh of Avalon 16.12.64 (formerly listed as Church of St Hugh)

G.V. II

Parish church. 1879 by John Loughborough Pearson. Red brick, ashlar dressings. Plain tiled roofs with decorated ridge tiles, plain tiled west gable, double dentillated eaves and eastern bell turret with plain tiled base, wooden slat bell openings, squat lead spire and weathervane. Narthex, nave, north vestry, apsidal chancel with rectangular north recess. Low narthex with lean-to roof and 3 ashlar dressed rectangular windows. Gable rises above narthex with 3 pointed, cusped, ashlar-dressed lights. North side with large, projected stack to west, and 2 windows to east, each of 3 ashlar-dressed, pointed lights. North vestry with plain west wall, north wall with 3 ashlar-dressed lights with central taller light and ashlar hood mould. East wall with pointeddoorway with ashlar hood mould and plank door. Plain north recess. Tall, broad apsidal east end with 5 plain, pointed, ashlar-dressed lights. South side of chancel and nave with 2 two stage buttresses and 3 three light, pointed, ashlar- dressed windows. South wall of narthex with pointed doorway with ashlar hood mould and plank door. Very plain interior with double dentillated eaes. Pointed doorway to north vestry with plank door. Plain pointed arch to north recess. C19 tie beam roofs. C19 screen and altar rail. Plain aumbry in south wall of apse with shallow triangular head. Source: Quiney, pp.275.

Listing NGR: SK8902080461