Church of St. Stephen and attached wall and entrance gate-piers and gates is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Church.

Church of St. Stephen and attached wall and entrance gate-piers and gates

WRENN ID
sombre-threshold-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St. Stephen and attached wall and entrance gate-piers and gates, St Stephen's Road, Steeton with Eastburn
OS grid reference
SE 033 445
Coordinates
53.89684, -1.94985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Stephen, built around 1881 by T.H. and F. Healey from Bradford, is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a Welsh slate roof in the Early English style. The church includes a nave, chancel, south transept, north vestry, and a south porch, with a tower located on the southeast side above the organ, which is to the right of the south transept. It has diagonal buttresses, coped gables with kneelers, and lancet windows. A notable feature is the three-stage tower topped with a broached spire that has lucarnes on the cardinal faces. The third stage of the tower includes a two-light arched belfry window with a quatrefoil design. The three-light east window showcases geometrical tracery, and the plinth beneath it extends to form walls with chamfered coping, topped with cast and wrought-iron railings featuring a fleur-de-lis motif. There are two sets of gate-piers with octagonal pointed caps that have matching gates.

Inside, the church has a five-bay nave with a waggon roof that retains stencil decoration, as well as a five-bay panelled chancel and a south transeptal chapel. The interior preserves its original furnishings and decorative scheme. The stained glass east window, depicting the Life of Christ, was created by the Powel Brothers from Leeds in memory of Herbert Todd, the Vicar of Kildwick. The west window, designed by Clayton and Bell around 1913, complements the interior. The reredos was designed by Godfrey L. Clarke, an architect from London and son of the then vicar, around 1910.

Local climate

Church of St. Stephen and attached wall and entrance gate-piers and gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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