Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a parish church built in 1890, with the chancel completed in 1893, designed by C.H. Lingen Barker of Hereford. It features a four-bay nave with aisles, a chancel, and a north vestry. The impressive west front faces the road, with a projecting center and an entrance door located on the returns. The building has a plain plinth and plain ashlar bands at various levels. There are three lancet windows in the center at a lower level, one in each aisle, and above these are two 2-light windows with geometric tracery. Above that is a plate-tracery rose window, and at the apex, there are three slits with louvres. The corner buttresses rise above the eaves with gabled caps. The entrance doors have separate hoodmoulds, and above them is a flat gable against the wall, carved with two layers of recessed semi-circles. A bell hangs under a projecting timber gablet over the north door. The aisles are buttressed and each bay contains three lancets grouped beneath a hoodmould. The clerestory features two sets of two lancets per bay. Inside, the church has an impressive interior with plain round columns and simple arches. The ceiling is boarded with a pointed barrel vault that has ribs at half-bay centers, rising off stone corbels. There is a western gallery that projects, complete with a stone balustrade, and the church retains its original fittings.