St Stephen's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lewisham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1954. Church.
St Stephen's Church
- WRENN ID
- little-entrance-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham North MP: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 383 757
- Coordinates
- 51.46416, -0.01025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Stephen's Church is a parish church built in 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is designed in a cruciform shape with a south porch and showcases an Early English style featuring paired and grouped lancets. The exterior is constructed from snecked random rubble with freestone dressings, topped with a high-pitched tiled roof over the nave, aisles, and south transept. The north transept has a parapet where a tower was originally planned. The large west portal features paired doors set beneath cusped, pointed arches.
Inside, the church has a five-bay nave supported by a high arcade on round piers with foliated capitals. The chancel is three bays long and lined with marble. There is a rood loft, but no screen, and a fine embroidered banner is displayed. Some stained glass windows are by Clayton and Bell.
Local climate
St Stephen's Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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