Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a church built in 1840 by T. Trubshaw and largely rebuilt in 1858 by H. J. Stevens of Derby for the patronage of the 2nd Earl of Lichfield. It is constructed from deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone and features graduated slate roofs. The building consists of a nave and chancel combined, with a north vestry and a west bellcote. There is a separately-roofed south aisle that includes porches at both the south and west ends.

Designed in the Gothic Revival style with Perpendicular details, the church has a plinth and offset buttresses. The nave and aisle are illuminated by square-headed mullioned windows with cusped lights, while the east and west gables feature traceried, pointed-arched windows with head-carved hoodmould stops and diamond-pane leaded lights. The gable copings are made of ashlar and have shaped kneelers topped with apex crosses.

Inside, the nave has north windows with 3, 2, and 5 lights, and the gabled vestry includes a 2-light window. The tall west window is flanked by buttresses and has panel tracery, while the bellcote is also buttressed. The south aisle contains windows with 3, 2, and 4 lights next to the gabled porch, which has colonettes supporting a pointed arch. The west porch features a Tudor arch and parapet, and the aisle and chancel have 4-light east windows. The chancel also includes two pointed windows to the north, adorned with cusping and geometrical tracery.

The interior showcases a 4:1 bay Perpendicular arcade with moulded lozenge-section piers and colonettes. Ornate false hammer-beam trusses are supported by foliage-carved corbels, which are doubled near the chancel. An octagonal stone font features traceried and quatrefoiled panels. The church has two aisles with patterned and encaustic tiling, and 19th-century oak pews, including those of the Anson family (Earl of Lichfield), which face north at the east end of the aisle. The nave also houses a west organ chamber with a Stringer organ from 1886.

Monuments within the church include a 1914 alabaster cartouche near the pulpit dedicated to Thomas George, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (who died in 1892) and his family, as well as various wall monuments near the Anson pews and a brass plaque in an oakleaf architrave. At the west end of the aisle, a brass plaque commemorates the "liberality" of the 2nd Earl in supporting the 1858 rebuilding.