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
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.
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