Description
Stock Gaylard, a parish in Dorsetshire, 5 miles W by S of Sturminster. The nearest railway station is Stalbridge on the Somerset and Dorset railway. Post town, Sturminster; telegraph office, Caundle Bishop. Population, 56. For parish council purposes it is united with Lydlinch, which has a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £130 with residence. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1885 on the site of the old one, and is a stone building in the Gothic style. Stock House is the chief residence.
Parish Church
The church os St. Barnabas, standing in the grounds of Stock House, was entirely rebuilt on the site of the old church and in the same form, by the Yeatman family, in memory of Harry Farr and Emma Yeatman, his wife, and was re-opened 23rd April, 1885, by the Right Rev. Bishop Kelly D.D. acting as commissioner for the bishop of the diocese: it is of stone in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret at the west end containing 2 bells: beneath a recessed Gothic arch on the south side of the nave is a monument with recumbent effigy in armour, supposed to represent Sir Ingelramus le Waleys Knt. who died about 1275: there are sittings for 60 persons.
The register dates from the year 1567.
