Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen, built in 1876 by H Ashdown, features a spire added in 1891 by A Blomfield. This church is designed in the Decorated style using ragstone with ashlar dressings. It has a five-bay aisled nave with a clerestory and a two-bay choir that includes side chapels; the north-east chapel serves as an aisle with a polygonal apse, while the south chapel is a double chapel off the south transept. There is a south-west chapel or baptistery located off the south wall of the nave. The north-west tower and spire are connected to the north aisle. The entrance is situated under the tower, and on the north side of the nave, the windows are arched and feature Geometric Decorated tracery with trefoil roundels above cusped-headed lights. The windows on the east, west, and south elevations have foliage capitals and consist of six lights on the west front and five lights elsewhere. The church is supported by stepped buttresses, and the tower has two pairs of belfry openings on each elevation, topped with a battlemented parapet. The spire is adorned with pinnacles and flying buttresses at the base, and the roofs are slated. The churchyard is surrounded by ragstone and stone-dressed walls.