St. Stephen’s is an Anglican church located on the corner of Gloucester Road and Southwell Gardens in the South Kensington area of London. The parish was created in 1866 due to the increasing population of this part of London. This was in part due to the 1851 Great Exhibition which resulted in a rapid expansion of housebuilding in Kensington.

The parish was originally served by a temporary iron mission church which was located opposite Gloucester Road station. St. Stephen’s church was built between 1866-67 with it being consecrated on 10th January, 1867. The architect was Joseph Peacock who designed the church with a six bay nave and chancel with lean-to aisles and double transepts.

Additions were made to Peacock’s building through the years including the octagonal north-east vestry in 1887 by Hugh Roumieu Gough. Due to the influence of the Oxford Movement, St. Stephen’s soon became a centre for Anglo-Catholic worship which resulted in the chancel being recast between 1903-08 by the great Gothic-revival architects George Frederick Bodley and Walter Tapper.