St Stephen's Church
St Stephen's Church, Lewisham High Street, SE13 5AG
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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 8 July 2025 to correct a typo in the description
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. Rood loft but no screen. Fine embroidered banner. Some stained-glass by Clayton and Bell.
SOURCE: Pevsner.
Listing NGR: TQ3831575787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203332
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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