Church Of St Stephen

The Church of St Stephen is a church built between 1846 and 1853, designed by E B Lamb. It features alternating courses of red brick arranged in a herringbone pattern, combined with light-coloured cobbles and sandstone ashlar dressings, both externally and internally. The church has a stone bracketed eaves cornice and plain tiled roofs, with diagonals highlighted in fishscale tiles that create a diamond-shaped grid. The stone coping adds to the overall design.

The layout reflects the architect's interest in central emphasis, with a single bay chancel, a wide square crossing with separately treated corners, short apsidal transepts, and an aisleless nave. To the north of the nave is a small two-stage tower topped with a low spire. This tower features angle buttresses, stepped and cogged eaves, and a stone bracketed cornice. The west wall of the tower displays the monogram E B L and the date 1853, which is also found above the entrance and on the chancel's east wall.

The entrance, located between the tower and nave, is a four-centred chamfered stone opening with a panelled wooden door that has a tracery head. Inside, there are four square stone crossing piers that are chamfered from about 75 centimetres high, with stone corbels supporting an elaborate wooden roof. The nave roof structure consists of a king post, tie beam, and arched braces on corbels. The windows are primarily four-centred with cusped lights, except for the east rose window, the chancel oculi, and the three-light two-centred west window, which features 'Perpendicular' tracery and glass by Kempe from 1885.