Vicars and Rectors
The Vicars and Rectors of St Mary’s Church
This is a list of the incumbents of St Mary’s Church from 1086 until the present. The links on the right give access to more details about these Vicars and Rectors.
1086 Aitard
1228 Thomas de Punignal
c1235 Nicholas (? of Ostia)
c1250 Philip de Norhamptone
c1266 William de Birley
c1279 Robert de Adinburg
1289 Richard de Notingham
1290 John de Ely
1304 Robert de Dalby
1313 Henry de Parva Halam
1317 John de Ludham
1322 John fil William Cosyn
1347 John de la Launde
1347 Robert de Wakebrigge
1348 Richard de Radclyff
1348 Roger de Nydingworth
1349 Richard de Swanyngton
1351 Thomas Pascayl
1357 John Chatarez
1357 John Lorymer, of Hoveden
1364 John de Stapleford
1371 William de Sandyacre
1374 Robert de Retford
1401 Richard de Chilwell
1409 William Ode
1442 William Wryght
1461 John Hurt, S.T.D.
1476 Thomas Turner, M.A.
1498 John Greve, S.T.B.
1499 Symeon Yates, Dec. B.
1504 Richard Taverner LL.B.
1534 Richard Mathew, Dec.B.
1535 Richard Wylde, M.A.
1554 Oliver Hawood
1568 John Lowthe, LL.B.
1572 William Underne
1578 Robert Aldridge
1616 Oliver Wytherington, M.A.
1616 John Tolson, S.T.B.
1617 Ralph Hansby, M.A.
1635 Edmund Lacock, B.D.
1645 William Howitt
1647/8 Nicholas Folkingham
1649 Jonathan Boole
1651 John Whitlock M.A. and William Reynolds, M.A.
1662 George Masterson, M.A.
1686 Samuel Crowborough, D.D.
1690 Benjamin Camfield, M.A.
1694 Timothy Caryl, M.A.
1698 Edward Clarke, M.A.
1708 Samuel Berdmore, M.A.
1723 John Disney, M.A.
1730 Thomas Berdmore, M.A.
1743 Scrope Berdmore, D.D.
1770 Nathan Haines, D.D.
1806 John Bristow, D.D.
1810 George Hutchinson, M.A.
1817 George Wilkins, D.D.
1843 Joshua William Brooks, M.A.
1864 Francis Morse, M.A.
1886 John Gray Richardson, M.A.
1900 Arthur Hamilton Baynes, D.D., Bp.
1913 Thomas Field, D.D.
1926 James Geoffrey Gordon, M.A.
1933 Neville Stuart Talbot, D.D., Bp.
1943 Robert Henry Hawkins, M.A.
1958 Douglas Russell Feaver, M.A.
1973 Michael James Jackson, M.A.
1991 James Edward McKenzie Neale, B.A.
2004 Andrew G. Deuchar BTH (Priest-in-Charge)
The list of clergy is taken from three principal sources.
- The manuscript of James Torre of York (who died in 16990
- The parish registers, which begin in 1566.
- Extracts from Calendars of Patent Rolls, 1290 to 1374
The currently accepted list of clergy as displayed in the church appears to contain the following errors and omissions.
1. The omission of some thirteenth century appointments, Philip de Norhamptone, Robert Adinburg, William de Birley and Richard de Notingham.
2. Omission and duplication which may be solved by reference to the Calendars of Patent Rolls for 1357. The appointment of John Chaterez is omitted in the Torre manuscript, and the succeeding vicar appears twice, first as John Lorymer, and then as John de Hoveden. It would appear that John Lorymer and John de Hoveden are the same person.
Omission of Jonathon Boole, 1649