Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a church built between 1930 and 1938 in several phases by the architectural firm Austin and Paley. It is constructed of snecked sandstone rubble and features green slate roofs, designed in a Free Perpendicular style.

The church has a plan that includes a nave and chancel combined into one space, with low north and south aisles, a south porch, and a vestry that runs parallel to the chancel.

On the exterior, the nave is supported by broad clasping buttresses at the west end, with a canted baptistery situated between them. Above the baptistery is a large transomed four-light west window. The south side of the nave features four large three-light clerestory windows adorned with Perpendicular tracery. The south aisle includes a prominent gabled porch at the first bay, which has diagonal buttresses and a two-centred arched doorway that is moulded in two orders, topped with a hood-mould that steps over a shield at the apex. There are pairs of square-headed windows with arched lights and hollow spandrels, and at the east end of the aisle, there is a small porch with an arched side door and a hipped roof.

The chancel has a canted east end with a parapet and is flanked by buttresses that support a large five-light window featuring simple Perpendicular tracery. Attached to the south side of the chancel is a tall two-bay vestry, which has two square-headed two-light windows with cusped lights, mouchette tracery, and hood-moulds with deep returned ends on its south side. The east end of the vestry features a broad corner buttress with offsets, a two-centred arched three-light east window with Perpendicular tracery, and is flanked by pilaster buttresses that rise to a large gabled bellcote. The interior has not been inspected.