Church of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen, located on St Stephen's Road, is a Grade I listed building that likely replaced a 13th-century church on the site with the current structure dating from the 15th century. It is constructed from local stone and features three aisles, five bays, and a tall three-stage north-west tower with set-back buttresses and crenellations. The tower includes an angled stair turret on the north side, and the belfry windows have pierced slate filling. The north and west windows exhibit an early Perpendicular style. The church has a slate roof, which was dated to 1866, and a gabled vestry on the north-east side that is contemporary with the north aisle. A gabled south porch features attractive mouldings on the archway, and there is an elegant incised slate slab on the south-west corner of the exterior.

Inside, the porch boasts a well-crafted waggon roof with bosses, while the three aisles also have waggon roofs. There is a rood loft opening on the south-west wall of the middle chancel. The font is a Norman square design with carved sides and five supports, resembling similar fonts found in other Cornish churches, such as those in Bodmin and Saltash. In the north-east corner, there are two elaborate monuments from around 1600 made of slate, dedicated to the Hitchens family, along with another early 17th-century relief monument in a flat niche. The church contains numerous wall monuments and features a brightly painted seven-bay Gothic style reredos from around 1900. Additionally, a medieval coffin lid is located in the north-west corner of the nave. Until 1881, this church served as the Parish Church of Saltash, despite being over a mile from the town center.