The first references to St. Stephen’s started to appear sometime after a Mr Fisher became incumbent of Willenhall in 1834, when three ecclesiastical districts, referred to loosely as ‘Parishes’ were constituted, these being St. Stephen’s, St. Anne’s and Holy Trinity. St. Giles, though based on a medieval chapel of ease, an offshoot of St. Peter’s Wolverhampton, was merely made up of the remaining area of the town.

After the Bilston cholera epidemic in 1832, which barely touched Willenhall, a Public Health Committee was formed by public pressure in Willenhall in 1842, and one of the administrative districts used for the purposes of this committee was St. Stephen’s District which followed the lines of today’s parish boundaries. The church register dates from 1848 but it was to be some 6 years before money was raised to build St. Stephen’s church ready for its consecration on 31st October 1854. The builder is recorded as W.D. Griffin (who was also later (in 186) to rebuild St. Giles Church.)

After a battle against dry rot the old church was demolished in July 1978. Prior to this, on the first Sunday after Easter 1978, the congregation moved into the recently extended new church hall, which was to be used for worship and social activities until the new church was available. In January 1977, work began on the new church that was connected to the church hall (referred to in older papers as St. Albans Hall). This connection, to quote a write up at the time of the dedication “was to make it clear that God is at the centre of all human activity, both worship and social”, the generosity of members of the church, friends, neighbouring churches, local industry and the Diocese of Lichfield, meant that of a total bill of £55,000, only some £6,500 was still owed at the time of the dedication by Bishop Barry Rogerson on the 8th September 1979. The priest at the time was Rev, T Green and the churchwardens were Gerald and Ron Starkey. For the record the Architects were Wood, Goldstraw and Yorta of Hanley, Stoke on Trent, and the building contractor was David J. Bremner of Sedgley.