Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Church of St Stephen

WRENN ID
high-plinth-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Stephen, Bennett Street, SK14 4PP
OS grid reference
SJ 945 960
Coordinates
53.46111, -2.08393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Stephen is a church built between 1889 and 1891 by John Eaton and Son. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The structure includes a nave, clerestory, aisles, a polygonal chancel, a south porch, and a north-west tower/porch. The nave and aisles are five bays long, with a projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, and two-light aisle windows that have plate tracery. Each bay of the clerestory contains two cusped lancet windows. Above the polygonal baptistry is a four-light west window. The gables are coped and have kneelers and finials. The three-stage tower features angled corner buttresses, a semi-octagonal stair turret, a north door, clock apertures on the second stage, two lancet belfry openings, and a broach spire with lucarnes.

Inside, there are small aisle passages and a tall nave that has been divided vertically into three spaces and horizontally by a suspended ceiling below the clerestory level. This ceiling conceals a tie-beam roof supported by columnar corbels and a fine polygonal barrel roof in the chancel. The nave arcade arches are chamfered and rest on circular columns with moulded capitals, all under hoodmoulds.

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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