Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a parish church built around 1885. It is constructed of brick with a plain tile roof, featuring blue brick and ashlar dressings. The church includes a nave, a chancel under a continuous roof, a south porch, a vestry, and a bell turret.

The nave has three bays with single and double lancet windows, featuring chamfered reveals and two brick buttresses with ashlar caps. The north side incorporates single and double lancet windows and two buttresses. The west gable has five lancet windows with rubbed brick heads and stone sills, flanked by two buttresses. The gabled south porch has brick eaves and kneelers, setback buttresses and a chamfered lancet to the north. It features a pointed arched opening with an ironwork lamp bracket and cross above, leading to a close boarded door with decorative hinges. The vestry has setback buttresses and a double lancet window on its north gable, and a pointed arched doorway to the east, framed by a close boarded door with decorative hinges. The chancel, single bay, has a paired lancet window on the south side and three lancets under a relieving arch on the east gable, with a stone sill and a cross on the gable.

The bell turret is timber-framed, tiled, and has a steep saddleback roof with an ornate iron cross. The interior showcases fine tuck-pointed brickwork and chamfered reveals. The roof is supported by stone corbels carrying arch braces to a scissor trussed principal rafter structure with moulded tenoned purlins and diagonal matchboarding. The church contains stained glass from the late 19th and 20th centuries. An octagonal stone font sits on a square base, covered with an elaborate crocketed timber cover. Re-sited medieval choir stalls and five elaborate wrought iron chandeliers are also present. A notable bronze memorial, signed Geo. Frampton, R.A., is located on the south side, commemorating Thomas Cecil Smith Woolley who died in 1913. A chamfered doorway to the vestry is marked by an elaborate wrought iron grille on the north side. A pointed chancel arch, chamfered, features a good late 19th century wrought iron screen with paired gates and a decorative cross above. A further chamfered pointed arched opening accommodates the organ on the north side, alongside triple pointed arched sedilia and a pointed arched piscina on the south side. Stained glass in the east window dates from 1887, 1894 and 1896, while the south windows feature 20th-century stained glass. The roof detailing includes roll moulded puffin elements with arched braces to collars and fitted with diagonal matchboarding.