Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-beam-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Stephen, College Road, SE21 7HW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 721
- Coordinates
- 51.43223, -0.07858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Stephen is a church built between 1867 and 1875 by Banks and Barry, located in Southwark. It is constructed from ragstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof in an Early English style. The building has a rectangular plan with an apsidal chancel that faces south-east, which is narrower and lower than the nave. There are aisles with a lean-to roof and a tower located on the north-east elevation, positioned two bays from the west end. The church includes a gabled porch on the north-east side and a one-storey extension on the south-east side.
The exterior features a Perpendicular tower with four stages and corner buttresses. Above the moulded round-arched entrance, there is a blank, three-arched arcade. Each face of the third stage has a single lancet, while the fourth stage has a large louvred bell opening with a moulded surround. The tower is topped with a broach spire. The west window is large and traceried, and the aisles have groups of three lancets with trefoil tracery set between stepped buttresses, along with a gabled clerestory.
Inside, there is a painting by Sir E. Poynter depicting the trial and stoning of St Stephen, created in 1872. The stained-glass windows were made by Kempe, with additional windows at the west end by M. Forsyth from 1952.
Local climate
Church of St Stephen sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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