Church Of St Stephen

SO 61 SE CINDERFORD BELLE VUE ROAD (east side) 10/25 Church of St. Stephen II Parish church, 1890, chancel 1893, by C.H. Lingen Barker of Hereford. 4-bay nave with aisles, chancel and north vestry. Impressive west front to road, projecting centre, entrance door on returns. Plain plinth, plain ashlar bands at various levels: 3 lancet windows in centre at lower level, one each in aisles; above two 2-light windows with geometric tracery, above again a plate- tracery rose window and in the apex 3 slits with louvres. Either side the corner buttresses are taken up above the eaves with gabled caps. The entrance doors have separate hoodmoulds, with above a flat gable against the wall, carved with 2 layers of recessed semi- circles. The bell hangs under a projecting timber gablet over the north door. Aisles buttressed, with 3 lancets grouped beneath a hoodmould in each bay; clerestory has 2 sets of 2 lancets per bay. Impressive interior, plain round columns, simple arches: ceiling boarded, pointed barrel vault with ribs at half-bay centres rising off stone corbels. Western gallery in projection with stone balustrade. Original fittings.

Listing NGR: SO6591013837