Description

SJ 99 NW
3/15

HYDE,
BENNETT STREET (south side),
Church of St. Stephen

II

Church. 1889-91. John Eaton and Son. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles, polygonal chancel, south porch, north-west tower/porch. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, 2-light aisle windows with plate tracery and 2 cusped lancet windows to each bay of the clerestory. 4-light west window above a polygonal baptistry. Coped gables with kneelers and finials. The 3-stage tower has angled corner buttresses, semi-octagonal stair turret, north door, clock apertures to the second stage, 2 lancet belfry openings and a broach spire with lucarnes. Interior: small aisle passages and tall nave which have been split vertically into 3 spaces and horizontally by a suspended ceiling below clerestory level. The ceiling conceals a tie-beam roof on columnar corbels and a fine polygonal barrel roof to the chancel. Chamfered nave arcade arches under hoodmoulds on circular columns with moulded capitals.

Listing NGR: SJ9452596042

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596155

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)