Woodstock : St Hugh RC

An interwar church in Tudor Gothic Revival style, built shortly after the founding of the parish. The planned sanctuary was never built. Although modest in scale, the church and lychgate make a positive contribution to the local townscape.

About this church

The church was built in 1934 to a design by G. B. Cox of Harrison & Cox. The walls are of brick faced with rock-faced Chadlington stone with Clipsham stone dressings, and the roof is tiled. The plan is oblong with a porch at the southwest and a sacristy transept at the southeast. The interior has four bays, divided by an arch-braced timber roof with three tracery panels in the apex of each truss. The sanctuary furnishings are of timber and the altar is carved with two angels and the Agnus Dei. The tabernacle is placed in the northeast corner, below a roof corbel. The east wall has a shallow arched recess and the door openings to the sacristy and the porch have Tudor arches. The Stations are small copper reliefs.

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