Arthur Mee's "Hertfordshire" describes it as follows: "Stocking Pelham. It has three good companions, a little church, a barn about twice as big, and the rectory still guarded by part of its old moat.

The plain little church has been here about 600 years, and in its belfry hangs a bell which may have rung out news of Agincourt.  Its business, it tells us in Latin, is to drive away all evil things. One other link has this church with the Long Ago, fragments of glass five or six centuries old." The village hall was formerly a Victorian school.

The church barn (mentioned above) was unfortunately subject to an arson attack in the early hours of 29th December 2002. The barn was raised to the ground, and as yet, the future of the site, which resembles a bomb site is still undecided. It was a horrific and very sad sight the night the barn went up in flames, and the fabric of the farmyard at Stocking Pelham Hall was lost that night.