st. stephen's church is located on the east side of st. stephen, on the south side of church road (south carolina highway 45). it is set on a parcel of about that includes the churchyard and cemetery, and is surrounded on three sides by brick church circle. the church is a single story brick structure, long and wide. it is topped by a gambrel roof with curvilinear roof sections and jacobean gable ends. there are three entrances, two on the long sides and one on the short western side. the doors and windows are set in round-arch openings with fanlight windows above, and the bays on each side are articulated by doric brick pilasters. the interior is divided roughly into four sections by two crossing aisles, with the pulpit located at the eastern end, in front of a small palladian window. the ceiling is of ornamented metal. the building's walls are stabilized by iron rods (placed after an 1886 earthquake), that run down and across the interior of the structure.