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
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Stephen, Audensaw Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 924 975
- Coordinates
- 53.47499, -2.11532
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
Local climate
Church of St Stephen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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