Church of St Hugh

The Church of St Hugh is an Anglican church predominantly built in 1908 by W.D. Caröe, incorporating an earlier meeting hall. It features roughcast walls on a brick base, with battered walls and thin sloping buttresses. The roof is stone tiled with wide eaves of varying heights, a hipped roof over the vestry, and a copper-clad fleche topped with a wind vane. The church has oak louvres and two roughcast chimneys. The layout includes a continuous nave and chancel, the latter being slightly narrower, and a single-storey vestry at the west end. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style, the church has a three-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, with a variety of one to five-light casement windows that are plain and unpainted, except for the east end where each light has a foiled head. The east and west windows feature iron saddle bars and stanchions, with square-paned leaded lights. There are paired plank doors on the north and south sides of the nave, showcasing original ironwork, and small circular windows, along with a door to the vestry in a matching style.

Inside, the church has plastered walls and a plank floor, complemented by high-quality lined oak fittings and furniture. The walls include simple panelling, with the west end enfolding the font to create a war memorial, featuring an octagonal stone font. The nave has an arch-braced crown post roof, while the chancel boasts a collar and tie beam roof with lower angle braces. The chancel arch is semi-circular and panelled, adorned with a rood screen in the style of the 15th century. The altar table and reredos are elaborately designed in a Celtic style. The nave and vestry include tiled fireplaces, and the church is furnished with two readers, a chest, a lectern, chairs, and an organ, all in the Arts and Crafts style. Oil lamps provide lighting, and the east and west windows contain richly stained glass, depicting the Nativity and the Apostles, created by Horace Wilkinson. The vestry is equipped with an iron pump. Originally the parish church of the Parish of Charterhouse, it is now amalgamated with Priddy.