Church of St Stephen on-the-Cliffs, Blackpool
| Church of St Stephen on-the-Cliffs | |
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 Church of St Stephen on-the-Cliffs
Location in Blackpool
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| Coordinates: 53°50′27″N 3°03′05″W / 53.8407°N 3.0514°W | |
| Location | St Stephen's Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Churchmanship | Anglo-Catholic |
| Website | St Stephen on-the-Cliffs, Blackpool |
| History | |
| Consecrated | 1927 |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Henry Paley |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1925 |
| Completed | 2002 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Brick exterior with stone dressings Sandstone interior |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St Stephen, Blackpool |
| Deanery | Blackpool |
| Archdeaconry | Lancaster |
| Diocese | Blackburn |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Canon Andrew Sage |
| Laity | |
| Churchwarden(s) | Pamela Bryant Jack Houghton |
| Parish administrator | Anne Berry |
The Church of St Stephen on-the-Cliffs is in St Stephen's Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Blackpool, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
St Stephen's originated as a mission church to All Hallows Church, Bispham, and was opened in 1912. It became known as "The Church on the Cliffs". In 1919 St Stephen's became a parish in its own right. The mission church was too small to accommodate its growing congregation, and money was raised to build a new, larger church on a site to the north of the mission church. Its foundation stone was laid by the Rt Revd William Temple, then the Bishop of Manchester (later the Archbishop of Canterbury), on 1 July 1925. The architect was Henry Paley of the Lancaster firm of architects Austin and Paley. In 1927 the church was consecrated by the Rt Revd Percy Herbert, the first Bishop of Blackburn, although only the east end and the first two bays had been completed. The church cost £20,000 (equivalent to £1,080,000 in 2015), and provided seating for 400 people. The church built up a strong relationship with actors and entertainers appearing in the local theatres, and in 1929 the Actors' Chapel was created in the church. In 1949 a columbarium (a chapel for the storage of cinerary urns) was added to the church, to a design by Edwin Carpenter. Further additions were made in 2001–02 by Stephen Eccles, consisting of a porch, a narthex, and a baptistry. The former mission church survives, and is used as the parish hall.
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