Church of St Stephen

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VANSITTART ROAD Church of St Stephen

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1874 by Henry Woodyer. Very plain but large stock brick church with Bath stone dressings, no tower. Tall clerestory, low windows to aisles. These windows have on the inside detached shafts set in front. Tall simple nave arcades, chancel with apse. Imposing reredos with croaketed gable over figure of Christ, flanked by paired shafts with rings.

A war memorial in the form of a hooded timber Calvary with a painted carved figure of Christ erected on 12 March 1918, is attached to an outside wall. The top arm of the cross has a small white painted scroll with INRI on it. To the right of the cross, set into the church wall, is a slate plaque which is inscribed: THIS CALVARY/ WAS DEDICATED IN 1918/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ALL THOSE FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY/ AND THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN./ IT WAS RESTORED IN 2013.

Listing NGR: SU9596776878

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.