The Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Church of St. Stephen) is a large Roman Catholic church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the sestiere of San Marco, Venice, Italy.
It was founded in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th century and altered again early in the 15th century, when the fine gothic doorway and ship's keel roof were added. The tall interior is also Gothic in style and has three apses.
Santo Stefano is parish church of one of the parishes in the Vicariate of San Marco-Castello. The other churches of the parish are San Samuele, San Maurizio, San Vidal and the Oratorio di San Angelo degli Zoppi.
The interior is divided into three naves by columns supporting six ogival arches on each side. The columns are alternately in white Greek and red Verona marble with painted and gilded capitals in the fourteenth-century style also of alternating design in accordance with the colour of the shafts. The walls are entirely finished with a polychrome regalzier (fake brick).
The central nave, illuminated not only by the windows of the façade and those on the left side, but also by lunette windows opened in the eighteenth century, is covered by a ceiling, typically Venetian, in the shape of a ship's hull with a five-lobed profile[5] and sewn by beams reinforced by barbicans about eight metres above the ground.
At the beginning of the nave is the large tombstone and bronze slab that covers the remains of Doge Francesco Morosini, the Peloponnesian, a work of 1694 by Antonio Gaspari and Filippo Parodi.
Above the portal on the counter-façade is the majestic monument dedicated to Domenico Contarini, a Venetian general who died after 153.
