St Stephen's Church, Bath

Heritage listing

Details LANSDOWN ROAD (East side) 656-1/16/787 Church of St Stephen 12/06/50 GV II* Parish church. 1840-1845. By James Wilson. Chancel 1883 by Willcox. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Cruciform plan with late C19 additions to east end. EXTERIOR: Diagonally leaded pointed arched windows with foliate stops to hoodmoulds, planked doors with ornate wrought iron hinges, ornate brattished rainwater heads with square section downpipes and flower fixings. Original building has coped parapets, lintel friezes, weathered sills, triple moulding to plinth, offset angle buttresses gabled above parapet with pointed finials and cinquefoil heads to window lights. Late C19 half-octagonal chancel has crocketed finials articulating projecting coped parapet chequered with four-petal flowers in square panels, supported by foliate bosses on lintel, ogee arches to three two-light east windows. Late C19 block in angle between chancel and north aisle (possibly vestry) has door to east side, north side has ornate finial to gable over circular window with mouchette and quatrefoil tracery, below are two windows with tracery to centres and tops. Late C19 block to north-east has steeply pitched roof parallel to nave. East end has pierced cross finial and hoodmould over three lancets. Two-bay north side has three offset buttresses flanking two paired windows with string course rising as hoodmoulds, windows have quatrefoils to tops and trefoil heads to lower lights. West side has similar finial and segmental-arched porch to flat-arched door. To left 1845 gabled crossing has buttresses, quatrefoil in circular window over tall three-light window panelled to base, with intersecting tracery and mask stops to hoodmould. Left return has small low trefoil-headed window and large blind two-light

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.