Church Of St Stephen

SE 46 SE ALDWARK THE MAIN STREET 7/2 (west side) Church of St Stephen II

Church. 1846-53. E B Lamb. Alternating courses of red brick in herringbone pattern and light-coloured cobbles with sandstone ashlar dressings and interior. Stone bracketed eaves cornice. Plain tiled roofs with diagonals picked out in fishscale tiles creating a grid of diamond shapes. Stone coping. The plan is an example of this architect's interest in central emphasis. Single bay chancel, wide square crossing with corners treated separately, short apsidal transepts and aisleless nave. Small scale 2-stage tower with low spire situated to north of the nave. It has angle buttresses, stepped and cogged eaves and a stone bracketed cornice. The monogram E B L and the date 1853 in stone to the west wall of the tower recurs above the entrance and to the chancel east wall. 4-centred chamfered stone entrance situated between the tower and nave has panelled wooden door with tracery head. The 4 stone crossing piers are square, chamfered from a height of c. 75 centimetres with stone corbels to support the elaborate wooden roof. Nave roof structure of king post, tie beam and arched braces on corbels. 4-centred windows with cusped lights except for the east rose window and chancel oculi and the 3-light 2-centred west window with 'Perpendicular' tracery and glass by Kempe 1885.

Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, p58.

Listing NGR: SE4674263329