Treasures Revealed

ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH

North Dean Road, Copley, Halifax HX4 8QA
Contact: Dave Adgar, Churches Conservation Trust
Tel: 07733 108553

Dating from 1861-65, this church is an early example of the work of the local architect W H Crossland, a pupil of Sir Gilbert Scott. Sited attractively on a wooded hillside above the Calder Valley, facing the model village built by Colonel Edward Akroyd for his factory employees,

It is tall and narrow with a polygonal apse and a bell-cote over the east nave gable: an original building in a French inspired Gothic style.

Most of Crossland’s fittings and decoration survive, as does the noteworthy sequence of stained glass in the apse by Hardman.