Church of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a late 19th-century church, built in 1897 to the design of W.D. Caröe, architect to the Diocese of Southwell. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs, and is in the Perpendicular Revival style.

The plan includes a chancel, a flat-roofed choir vestry, a lantern topped with a spire at the junction of the nave and chancel, a nave with aisles, and a western bellcote. A south porch provides access.

The chancel, with two bays, features an ashlar parapet and coped gable. The east end is blank, with two panel-traceried five-light windows on each side, truncated above the aisle roofs. The choir vestry to the southeast has a four-light panel-traceried window. The clerestory has alternating two- and three-light panel-traceried windows with flat heads. The west end features a gabled projecting porch with a moulded pointed arch incorporating a foundation stone, ornate wooden double doors, and a large six-light panel-traceried window set within a round-arched recess, flanked by a canted brick stair turret leading to the square ashlar bellcote.

The north aisle, partially obscured by a modern building, has four four-light panel-traceried windows and a porch converted into a corridor. The south aisle has four similar windows, with an additional window partly covered by a priest's door with a moulded segment-arched opening. Both aisles have coped gables, and three-light panel-traceried windows set in segment-arched recesses at the west ends. The south porch has a coped gable with moulded pointed arched double doors and an empty niche above.

The interior features a continuous arch-braced common rafter roof with wall shafts. The chancel has a segment-arched recess at the east end with a crenellated band, as well as a segment-arched door to the north, a piscina, an aumbry, sedilia, and a door to the south. The nave has four bay arcades with moulded pointed arches dying into octagonal piers and responds. The west end has double doors. The aisles contain stained glass west windows dating to 1897, and the south aisle has two stained glass windows dated 1936 and 1943. Original oak stalls are present, along with a traceried octagonal ashlar pulpit and a marble font with a spire cover, both resited from a demolished church around 1890.