Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church.

Church of St Stephen

WRENN ID
dim-lintel-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Stephen, Belle Vale Road
OS grid reference
SJ 431 881
Coordinates
53.38676, -2.85589
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St. Stephen is a church built between 1872 and 1874, designed by Cornelius Sherlock. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with a tile ridge. The church consists of a nave with aisles beneath a lean-to roof, a south porch, a north-west steeple, a chancel, and flanking vestries. The five-bay nave includes aisle windows with two and three cusped ogee-headed lights, while the clerestory is adorned with rose windows. The tower is supported by angled buttresses and topped with crocketed gables. The west entrance features paired lancets beside a niche containing a statue, a cusped Lombard frieze, and an embattled parapet with gargoyles, along with a recessed spire that has lucarnes. The west window has four lights with intersecting tracery. The north vestry includes an entrance and a two-light window, while the south vestry, dated 1897, has a gabled roof and two-light windows. The chancel features a three-light east window with reticulated tracery and diagonal buttresses, as well as a lateral stack. Inside, there are arcades supported by round columns, a scissor-braced roof with the end two bays blocked, and a west window from the 1880s created by Morris and Co. The chancel also has a timber screen and a coffered roof.

Local climate

Church of St Stephen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Church Cottages Grade II 44 m
  2. Church Cottages Grade II 58 m
  3. Church Cottages Grade II 61 m
  4. Signpost Opposite Number 66 Grade II 139 m
  5. Numbers 8 and 9 and Front Garden Wall Grade II 508 m
  6. Numbers 5,6, and 7 and Front Garden Wall Grade II 519 m
  7. Numbers 3 and 4 and Front Garden Wall Grade II 532 m
  8. Numbers 1 and 2 and Front Garden Wall Grade II 541 m
  9. Drinking Fountain Grade II 557 m
  10. Kingsley Grade II 560 m