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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 99 NW 3/15
HYDE, BENNETT STREET (south side), Church of St. Stephen
II
Church. 1889-91. John Eaton and Son. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles, polygonal chancel, south porch, north-west tower/porch. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, 2-light aisle windows with plate tracery and 2 cusped lancet windows to each bay of the clerestory. 4-light west window above a polygonal baptistry. Coped gables with kneelers and finials. The 3-stage tower has angled corner buttresses, semi-octagonal stair turret, north door, clock apertures to the second stage, 2 lancet belfry openings and a broach spire with lucarnes. Interior: small aisle passages and tall nave which have been split vertically into 3 spaces and horizontally by a suspended ceiling below clerestory level. The ceiling conceals a tie-beam roof on columnar corbels and a fine polygonal barrel roof to the chancel. Chamfered nave arcade arches under hoodmoulds on circular columns with moulded capitals.
Listing NGR: SJ9452596042
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