Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales

Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales
Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales, from the west
Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales Location in North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°26′25″N 0°32′59″W / 54.4402°N 0.5497°W / 54.4402; -0.5497
OS grid reference	NZ 941 059
Location	Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Churches Conservation Trust
History
Dedication	Saint Stephen
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	6 October 1969
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1822
Closed	1870
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof

Old St Stephen's Church is a redundant Anglican church standing on a hillside in Fylingdales, overlooking Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

The church was built in 1822 replacing an older church; a church has been present on the site since the medieval era. This church closed in 1870 when it was superseded by a new church, also dedicated to Saint Stephen, on a new site near the railway station. The old church was vested in the Trust on 1 December 1986.

The church is constructed in sandstone with a purple slate roof. It is a simple building comprising a single-cell "preaching box", with a six-bay nave, a small sanctuary, a south porch and a north vestry. At the west end of the church is a bell-cupola. The architectural style of the church is Gothic Revival. Above the porch is a sundial bearing the dates 1736, 1864 and 1919. Inside the porch are wooden benches. In the walls of the nave are windows with pointed arches. There is a square-headed door in the south wall of the sanctuary. The east window is similar to those in the nave, and it is flanked by diagonal buttresses. In the wall of the vestry is a 15-pane window.