Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed church built between 1897 and 1898 by the architects Smith, Brodrick and Lowther. It is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The church has a west tower with clasping aisles, a four-bay nave with transepts, and a two-bay chancel with a vestry to the south. Designed in the Decorated style, the five-stage tower includes diagonal buttresses and a turret at the upper two stages of the south-west angle. The west entrance features a pointed doorway with round nook-shafts, flanked by two-light pointed windows in the aisles. Above the tower door is a three-light pointed window, and there are double belfry openings on each face of the tower, topped with an embattled parapet and pinnacles.

The nave contains three-light square-headed windows in the aisles and two-light square-headed windows in the clerestory, while the transepts have pointed three-light windows. The vestry has a two-light square-headed window, and the chancel features two-light pointed windows, except for a prominent five-light pointed window on the east side. Inside, the church boasts an imposing arcade with two chamfered orders on round piers and a tall chancel arch.