Church of St Stephen is a Grade I listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. A C13 Church.

Church of St Stephen

WRENN ID
still-outpost-snow
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1955
Type
Church
Period
C13
Address
Church of St Stephen, Main Road, Etton, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TF 140 065
Coordinates
52.64509, -0.31526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Stephen is a Grade I listed building, primarily dating from the 13th century. It is constructed from coursed stone and features lead and slate roofs. The nave includes late 14th century quatrefoil clerestory windows and a parapet. The north and south aisles have 13th century two-light windows with Y-tracery and foiled circles. There is a blocked north doorway with a trefoiled head, and the double-chamfered south doorway leads to a south porch with a round arch that has both chamfer and hollow chamfer details. The south windows of the chancel mirror the aisle windows, and there is a small ogee arched window in the south wall of the chancel. The east window consists of five stepped lancets, while the blind north wall of the chancel has a blocked arch that once led to a chapel.

The west tower is composed of three stages, featuring flat angle buttresses and a polygonal stair turret. It has lancet windows and round arched bell openings with pointed arch lights, separated by circular shafts, along with a frieze adorned with heads, stiff-leaf motifs, and figures. The stone broach spire is topped with two tiers of lucarnes.

Inside, the church has three bay arcades supported by circular piers with circular capitals and abaci, featuring pointed double-chamfered arches, with decorative elements on the south side. The chancel arch is double-hollow-chamfered, and the tower arch is also double-chamfered and pointed, with the original roofline visible above. There are piscinas in both the chancel and south aisle, as well as sedilia in the chancel. The font is a plain 14th century octagonal design with a 17th century cover, and the seating is from the mid-19th century.

Local climate

Church of St Stephen sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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