Stock Gaylard / Stock Gayland / Stoke / Gayland

Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) in a citation from the original edition: "The font is octagon, adorned with roses." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 198) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Long (1923) as a "good example of the quatrefoil type of bowl" of the enriched octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period. Mee (1939) writes: "The old font has roses on its bowl." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular, with quatrefoils." Ilustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/stock_gaylard.htm]. The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with rose-in-a-quatrefoil, and wide 45-degree chamfer with square floral motifs, raised on an octagonal pedestal stem decorated with panels; plain octagonal lower base; plain octagonal plinth with kneeling stone; flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle.