Church Of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1966. Church.

Church Of St Stephen

WRENN ID
twisted-window-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1966
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Stephen is a church built between 1845 and 1846 by E. H. Shellard for the Church Commissioners, with a chancel added in 1900. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and has a slate roof. The church features a three-sided gallery plan, a central west tower, a chancel, and a vestry, all designed in the Gothic revival style.

The building has six bay aisles without a clerestory, which include a weathered plinth, a continuous sill band, and a coped parapet above the eaves band. Each bay is marked by a weathered gableted buttress and a paired lancet window with colonnettes and hoodmoulds. There are doors located below the gables in the westernmost bays, along with corner pinnacles.

The five-stage tower has shallow angled buttresses with nook-shafts, a west door, lancet openings, clock faces in front of a blind arcade, gargoyles, and a broach spire with lucarnes. The later chancel employs a similar architectural style and features a three-lancet east window.

Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by quatrefoil columns with heavy shaft-rings, which hold up the arcaded gallery. The roof is made of arch-braced trusses on moulded corbels. There is a 20th-century partition below the rear gallery, along with a timber pulpit, stalls, a stone font, and stained glass windows.

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