Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a church dating from 1876 to 1879, designed by John Green. It is built of snecked rock-faced sandstone with slate roofs. The church comprises a nave with a north-west tower, north and south aisles, and a chancel with a south vestry.

The three-stage tower features angle buttresses, an embattled parapet with prominent corner gargoyles, and an octagonal north-west stair turret terminating in an open arcade above parapet level. A gabled porch provides access to a two-centred arched west doorway, which has a moulded surround with set-in shafts of polished pink granite and a hood-mould with figured stops, and gable coping with an apex cross. Above the porch is a band of triangular trefoil windows. The second stage is set back, with a clock face set in Gothic blind arcading. A two-centred arched belfry window contains shafts, plate tracery, and a hood-mould with figured stops. Further blind arcading runs below the parapet. The five-bay nave has a two-centred arched four-light west window with trefoil lights and multifoil tracery. The aisles and clerestory are punctuated by small paired cusped lancet windows. The chancel has a three-light east window with geometrical tracery, and the vestry, which forms a wing on the south side, has a three-sided apsidal south end, buttressed, with tall traceried lancet windows.

Inside, the five-bay aisle arcades feature cylindrical columns with prominent carved crocketed capitals, carrying double-chamfered two-centred arches. The arches of the two western-most bays on each side are now blocked, with parish rooms inserted at that end. A tall two-centred chancel arch has moulding including shafts of polished pink granite and a hood-mould with angel terminals. The roof is arch-braced with a king-post and wall-posts supported by detached shafts with foliated corbels and caps. A stained glass window serves as a War Memorial within the west window.