It is a gray brick church, located at 115 North East Street, is the oldest church building in the town of Culpeper. The land on which it was erected was willed by the Revolutionary patriot, Brigadier General Edward Stevens, who gave an acre of ground "...adjoining the town of Fairfax to build a church thereon to the Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church." According to tradition, it was given as a memorial to his young son. When first built, the church had galleries on each side and at the back. The side galleries were in use until the 1800s. Originally the pulpit was above the reading desk. The sterling silver communion service dates from 1883. In 1861 the church building was enlarged with a new front, vestibule and steeple. This steeple was destroyed in a wind storm in 1957 and has been rebuilt. The church was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers during the Civil War, following the battles of first and second Manassas, Brandy Station, and Cedar Mountain. During the winter of 1863, when Gen. J. E. B. Stuart and his staff were quartered in Culpeper, the Gen. and his aid regularly attended services at St. Stephen's. St. Stephen's was one of several churches of St. Mark's Parish which was established following a meeting at Germanna in 1730. In the walk which connects the church and Peterkin Memorial Hall are four bricks of historic significance from the old church at Jamestown and from the site of the first church in Rappahannock near Slate Mills. The churchyard is surrounded by a high stone fence with iron railing and entrance gates, the legacy of W.C. Norris, Jr. The interior of the church is beautiful with many memorials, among them handsome stained glass windows, the earliest dated 1888. The St. Stephen's congregation observed both the church's centennial and sesquicentennial anniversaries. (source: Book: Historic Culpeper, Bicentennial Edition, Culpeper Historical Society)