Church of St Hugh
Church of St Hugh, Charterhouse
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307304
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hugh
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Hugh, Charterhouse
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307304
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hugh
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Hugh, Charterhouse
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Hugh, Charterhouse
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Priddy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50131 55663
Details
ST55NW
2/75
PRIDDY CP
CHARTERHOUSE
Church of St Hugh
(previously listed in the parish of Charter house)
9.2.61
GV
II*
Anglican Church. Predominantly 1908 by W.D Caröe on a slightly earlier meeting hall core. Roughcast on brick, battered walls, thin sloping buttresses, stone tiled roof with wide eaves of varying height, hipped roof to vestry, copper clad fleche with wind vane, oak louvres, two roughcast chimneys. Continuous nave and chancel, the latter slightly narrower, vestry of single storey to west end. Arts and Crafts style. Three bay nave, two bay chancel, one-, two-, three-, four- and 5-light casements, plain and unpainted, except to east end each light with a foiled head, east and west windows with iron saddle bars and stanchions; square-paned leaded lights. Paired plank doors to north and south of nave, original ironwork, small circular windows; door in conforming style to vestry.
Interior: plastered on plank floor with high quality lined oak fittings and furniture. Walls with simple panelling, at west end enfolding the font to form a war memorial, octagonal stone font. Nave with arch braced crown post roof; chancel with collar and tie beam roof, with lower angle braces. Panelled semi-circular head chancel arch with C15 style rood screen; elaborate altar table and reredos, the former in Celtic style. Nave and vestry with tiled fireplaces. Two readers, chest, lectern, chairs and organ in Arts and Crafts style. Oil lamps. East and west windows with richly stained glass, the former with the Nativity, the latter with the Apostles, by Horace Wilkinson. Vestry with iron pump. Formerly the parish church of the Parish of Charterhouse, now amalgamated with Priddy.
Listing NGR: ST5013155663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church of St Hugh Church Guide, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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