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SJ 48 NW BELLE VALE ROAD L25
8/135 Church of St. Stephen 14.3.75
G.V. II
Church. 1872-4. Cornelius Sherlock. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with tile ridge. Nave with aisles under lean-to roof, south porch, north west steeple, chancel and flanking vestries. 5-bay nave has aisle windows of 2 and 3 cusped ogee-headed lights, clerestory has rose windows. Tower has angled buttresses with crocketed gables. West entrance; paired lancets flank niche with statue; cusped Lombard frieze and embattled parapet with gargoyles; recessed spire with lucarnes. West window of 4 lights with intersecting tracery. North vestry has entrance and 2-light window, south vestry dated 1897 has gabled roof and 2-light windows. Chancel has 3-light east window with reticulated tracery and diagonal buttresses, lateral stack. Interior has arcades on round columns. Scissor-braced roof, end 2 bays blocked. West window of 1880’s by Morris and Co. Chancel has timber screen. Coffered roof.
Listing NGR: SJ4317288108
