Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a parish church built between 1831 and 1832 by G.T. Andrews, on the site of an earlier medieval church. The chancel was rebuilt in 1851, a vestry was added in 1889, and an east window was inserted in 1890. Additions were made at the west end in the mid-20th century.

The church is constructed of squared limestone blocks, with slate roofs. The plan includes a west tower topped with an ashlar broach spire, a 20th-century lean-to addition against the north wall, a 20th-century porch in the southwest angle of the nave, a nave with north and south transepts, a lower chancel, and a north lean-to vestry.

The tower has angle buttresses, and three sides feature lozenge openings above chamfered lancet windows, each with timber louvres. A weather vane sits atop the spire. A single-storey porch has a canted front wall. A boarded door sits to the right of the angle with the porch, and a mullioned window to the left. The nave’s north and south walls, divided into three bays by buttresses, feature chamfered lancet windows. The north and south transept walls both have stepped parapets rising to a shallow central gable containing two chamfered lancet windows and a central door set within chamfered lancet surrounds with glazed heads. An empty niche is located below the gable on the south side. The side walls of the transepts each have one lancet light; the northeastern one is now partly blocked and covered by the later vestry. The south chancel window comprises two trefoiled lights under a pointed head. The north wall of the vestry has a three-light mullioned window. The east window is of three trefoiled lights under a pointed head with intersecting tracery, and the east wall of the chancel has a coping with a cross finial. The east wall of the vestry has a doorway and a three-light mullioned window.

Inside, according to historical records, the chancel arch is double-chamfered and pointed. The tower arch is chamfered. A western gallery is supported on four iron pillars. The nave and transepts have ceiled roofs, while the chancel has a scissor rafter roof.