Vicars of Thorpe-le-Soken
In 1147 the Canons of St Paul's granted the church at Thorpe to Thomas the priest for a period of three years at the rent of one mark.
The record of Vicars below was made during the incumbency of the late Brian Shannon. It is made up of material from various sources and is as accurate as it can be, given that many records at St Paul's Cathedral were lost in the Great Fire of London and the possibility that local records were lost during the rebuilding of the parish church when workmen were said to have burned the contents of the parish chest on Mill Meadow, mistaking it for rubbish.
The record of Vicars below was made during the incumbency of the late Brian Shannon. It is made up of material from various sources and is as accurate as it can be, given that many records at St Paul's Cathedral were lost in the Great Fire of London and the possibility that local records were lost during the rebuilding of the parish church when workmen were said to have burned the contents of the parish chest on Mill Meadow, mistaking it for rubbish.
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1181 John
Nicholas 1251 Symon 1297 Andreas 1307 Richard Piryton 1311 William 1335 Henry 1361 Simon 1366 Richard Sarkyn 1373 Walter 1390 John Leman 1412 John Vincent 1418 John Kyrwyn 1422 Walter Bunt 1423 John Salmanby 1428 William Pynner Records destroyed in the Great Fire of London 1523 John Cutlar 1523 William Morbury 1547 John Barlow 1550 Robert David ap Rece 1552-3 William Brantyngham 1553 John Blanke 1554 John Dixon 1559 John Welch the elder 1560 Robert Sprott 1561 John Calye 1571 Samuel Daniel 1616 Richard Paschall |
1625 Thomas Darnell
Deprived under the Commonwealth 1645 Thomas Colson In 1645 3 men were charged at the Quarter Sessions for entering the Church and disrupting the service. They were protesting because an "Intruder", Thomas Colson, had replaced the previous vicar, Thomas Darnell, who had served the parish for 20 years. 1650 Thomas Harrold 1658 Matthias Smythe 1664 Robert Ridgeway 1666 Joshua Lisle 1700 John Hunt 1712 Thomas White 1741 Thomas Lambert 1745 Alexander Henry Gough 1776 Matthew Thompson 1779 John Stoney 1823 Willliam Burgess 1862 Abraham Henly Rumboll 1897 R.G.W. Tucker 1902 Edwin Frederick Robins 1911 Alan Rowlands Wood 1951 David Egryn James 1971 John Boby MacGowan 1976 Leslie John Derrett 1981 Brian James Shannon 1992 Victor Ralph Harrod 1994 Paul Joseph Carter, ssc. 2005 Jeremy C. Dowding,ssc. (Priest-in-Charge) 2017 Jeremy C. Dowding, ssc (Vicar) |