Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
low-arch-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Barnabas, Lydlinch
OS grid reference
ST 722 129
Coordinates
50.91559, -2.39619
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas, formerly known as the Parish Church at Stock Gaylard, is a former parish church that was entirely rebuilt in 1884 by W.J. Fletcher. The original features date mostly from the 15th and 16th centuries. The church is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate, gable-ended roof with stone copings and a double bell-cot.

The layout includes a chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry. It is a small church designed in the 'perpendicular' style, with windows primarily consisting of two lights under square heads. The east window features two trefoiled lights with panelled tracery beneath a two-centred head and a returned label, which appears to follow the original design as seen in an engraving by Hutchins. The vestry contains trefoiled windows, while the south porch has an archway with a chamfered two-centred head. The interior includes barrel-vaulted roofs, a stone slab altar that may be a reused table-tomb top on a reset table tomb, and an octagonal 15th-century stone font with quatrefoil panels. There is some early glass present, and a recumbent 13th-century effigy of a knight, identified as Sir Ingelramus de Walys, is set in a cusped arched niche in the south wall of the nave. The church also features 18th and 19th-century wall tablets.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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