Clergy at St Peter’s
Rectors | ||
1180 | Thomas | |
1235 | Rafe | |
1260 | Roger Agnello | |
1290 | William Waryn | |
1312 | John de Colne | |
Thomas de Lavenham | ||
Vicars | ||
1324 | Richard Adholt (sub.d) | Resigned 1331 |
1331 | John de Wolfe | Resigned 1336 |
1335 | William de Melton | |
1336 | John Gybon | |
1338 | Richard Adholt | |
1377 | John Newman | |
1392 | John Best | |
1426 | Walter Crombe | Resigned 1433 |
1433 | William Moyne | Resigned 1434 |
1434 | John Gurdon | Resigned 1438 |
1438 | Adam Balsham | |
John Wilkinson | ||
1479 | Richard Twycrosse | Died 1485 |
1485 | William Browne | Died 1494 |
1495 | Richard Caumond MA | Died 1535 |
1535 | Robert Bachcroft | Died 1537 |
1537 | Henry Beck | |
1555 | John Thorpe | Died 1565 |
1566 | Marcellinus Outred | |
1569 | Oliver Pigge | |
1570 | Edward Gutter MA | |
1579 | Robert Lewes MA | Deprived after 1584 |
1589 | Thomas Taverner MA | Resigned 1590 |
1590 | Edward Gutter | Died 1593 |
1593 | William Cole BA | Resigned 1600 |
1600 | Stephen Newcomen MA | Died 1629 |
1630 | Richard Maden STB | Resigned 1632 |
1632 | Robert Mercer MA | |
1654 | Edward Warren MA | Ejected 1662, died 1690 |
1662 | Edmund Hickeringill MA | Signs parish register as Vicar Aug 28, 1662 but instituted to All Saints, 21 Oct 1662. |
1663 | John Nettles | Died 1672 |
1673 | Thomas Thompson MA | Died 1682 |
1683 | John Edwards STB | |
1686 | Robert Dickman MA | Sequestrator, 1686 to 1698 |
1698 | Benjamin Smyth | Died 1714 |
1714 | Robert Turner MA | Resigned 1738 |
1738 | Staunton Degge MA | Resigned 1739 |
1739 | Thomas Halley MA | Died 1759 |
1760 | William Smythies MA | Died 5 November 1780 |
1781 | Robert Storry | Died 18th January 1814 |
1814 | William Marsh DD | Resigned 1829, died 24th August 1864 |
1829 | Samuel Carr MA | Died 17th June 1854 |
1854 | Henry Caddell MA | Died 15th March 1893 |
1893 | James Marshall Laycock MA | Instituted 17th May 1893 |
1895 | Charles Triffit Ward MA | Hon Canon of Chelmsford |
1922 | Charles Edward Cardo BA | |
1932 | Reginald Brackstone Bertin | |
1941 | Edward Harry Shaw | |
1948 | Thomas Henry Hollingdale AKC | |
1959 | Wilfrid Herbert Parsons ALCD, Hon CF | |
1970 | Robert Malcolm Wilson MA, ALCD | Hon Canon of Chelmsford. Resigned and retired 2001 |
2001 | Fred Woods | Resigned and retired 2011 |
2011 | Vacancy | |
2012 | Mark Wallace |
In addition to the incumbents, there have been a number of curates at St Peter’s church over the years. These have included (dates of licence) John Harington, 1823; John Sandys, 1826; John Toll Burt, 1829; Justus Theophilus Timothy, 1871; Carter William Dakin Moore, 1875; Joseph Cornelius Hill, 1885; Thomas Charles Westmorland, 1888; Edward Miller, 1894; E.J. Goodchild, (to 1915); S. J. A. Dean (temporary), 1915; Herbert Hughes, 1915. This list is not complete.