Architectural Note - the Early English Gothic architectural style

Early English Gothic, was a continuous development of Romanesque or Norman. It was the first of three phases (Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular) into which English Gothic is normally divided. Early English flourished from about the last decade of the 12th century to around the end of the 13th century. It was during this period that the high ideology of the Church fully developed and decoration in the Early English style became minimalist and more austere than either the preceding Romanesque or the following Gothic developments.

Examples of Early English Gothic architecture in St Stephen's church include the lancet windows in the chancel and the lancet window in the second stage of the tower's east elevation, immediately above the roof of the chancel.

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