Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is an Anglican church located on Morris Lane in Kirkstall, Leeds. Built between 1828 and 1829 by architect R.D. Chantrell for the Church Commissioners, it underwent restoration and enlargement in 1863-1864 by Perkin and Bulmer, with further alterations made in 1874 by Henry Walker. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style, constructed of hammer-dressed gritstone ashlar with a slate roof.

The building features a nave with five lancet windows, each with hoodmoulds, and North and South aisles that share a single roof. It includes North and South transepts adorned with four-light decorated tracery. The west tower is composed of three stages, featuring a west door with a deep roll-moulded surround and a gable above, traceried double doors, a lancet window above the door, a clock, a single-light belfry window, pinnacles, and a stone octagonal spire with lucarnes. The eastern end contains a vestry and chancel, which has paired lancet windows and a three-light east window, arched over the table tomb of Richard Oastler and other grave slabs.

Inside, the church has a six-bay nave and a two-bay original chancel that has been extended by three additional bays, along with three-bay transepts. The original work features quatrefoil columns, while the extension has plain columns. The nave's five tie-beam trusses are decorated with quatrefoils and cusped designs. The chancel floor is tiled and has mosaic elements. Notable interior features include a wooden reredos with painted figures of saints, open quatrefoil arched frontals to the choir stalls, and a heavily carved square wooden pulpit on an octagonal base. The west gallery is finished with wooden panelling and a brass handrail. The stained glass in the east window depicts Christ in Glory flanked by St Stephen and St Paul, while a memorial window in the south wall of the nave commemorates Thomas Butler, who died in 1873.