St Stephens Church

The Parish Church, Kirkby Stephen is an Anglican parish church in Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. The Church is shared among the Anglican and Roman Catholic Population of Kirkby Stephen, protecting each Anglican Communion and Roman Catholic Mass. Kirkby Stephen Parish Church is regularly referred to as the "Cathedral of the Dales" and, in Cumbria, handiest Kendal Parish Church is bigger. There have been three church buildings in this site. The first became built in Anglo-Saxon instances; it changed into changed in 1170 with the aid of a Norman church. This turned into changed by the existing building in 1240 and has been altered inside the centuries given that, being partly rebuilt in 1847 and restored within the 1870s.

It is a Grade II indexed constructing. The church is approached from the market rectangular, where it's miles almost hidden from view by using the cloisters, built in 1810. The Church has no reputable willpower. There is no actual foundation to support either reference to St Stephen or to the alternative rumoured previous willpower to St John. However, the church is often known as 'St Stephen's Church'. The Church has eight bells with the tenor weighing 15 cwt and tuned to F, all except the seventh bell had been cast by means of John Warner & Sons of London in 1877, the seventh became solid by Edward Seller in 1849.