St Stephen's Church

St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193214
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1954
List Entry Name:: St Stephen's Church
Statutory Address:: St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193214
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1954
List Entry Name:: St Stephen's Church
Statutory Address 1:: St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Lewisham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 38315 75787

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 October 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

779/14/L8

LEWISHAM HIGH STREET SE13 (East side) St Stephen's Church

(Formerly listed as Church of Stephen)

30-AUG-54

II

Parish church. 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Cruciform church with South porch. Early English style with paired and grouped lancets. Snecked random rubble with freestone dressings. High pitched, tiled roof to nave, aisles and South transept. Parapet to North transept where tower was intended. Large West portal has paired doors under cusped, pointed arches.

INTERIOR: five-bay nave with high arcade on round piers with foliated capitals. Three-bay marble lined chancel. Roof loft but no screen. Fine embroidered banner. Some stained-glass by Clayton and Bell.

SOURCE: Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ3831575787

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Legacy System number:: 203332
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.