List of Vicars and Priests-in-Charge

The earlier names are taken mainly from Dugdale’s Antiquities Of Warwickshire, but there are no records before 1316. The names of some of the earlier incumbents are worth noting because of their similarity to place names of today. Also, during the twenty years of the Black Death (1349-1369), it will be seen that there were five vicars, including two in one year:

Roger de Boyvill, 1316
Thomas de Coventre, 1328
Nicholas de Haselovere, 1349
William de Bradweye, 1361
John de Toucester, 1361
William de Stoneley, 1362
Thomas de Napton, 1369
Richard de Rossale, 1377
William Sprunt, 1380
Thomas Hulle, 1394
John Broun, 1401
John de Barston, 1408
Richard Crewe, 1409
John Repton, 1409
Richard Ashby, 1416
John Racheford, 1417
Thomas Flynderkyn, 1425
Richard Browne, 1425
Thomas Weston, 1428
William Sutton, 1433
John Sokeling, 1439
John Clerke, 1456
John Furnevale, 1467
John Andeley, 1467
Thomas Prees, 1473
John Masty, 1487
Thomas Edwards, 1515
Henry Ellys, 1528
Robert Kinge (1529)

THE REFORMATION

Church of England Established 1534
Richard Budworth (1558)
William Churchley (1560)
Anthony Offley (1569)
Humphrey Wilding
Nicholas Langridge (1604)
Humphrey Smallwood (1627)
Richard Chamberlaine (1656)
Nicholas Chamberlaine (1662)
Richard Chamberlaine (1664)
John Jackman (1701)
Robert Mills (1743)
John Clarke (1767)
Thomas Cox (1782)
Sir Henry Dryden (1824)
Leopold Erasmus Dryden (1837)
Frederick Leigh Colvile (1842)
Francis Grenville Cholmondeley (1880)
Edward Riley (1905)
Sidney Ernest Longland (1927)
Richard Geoffrey Adderley Etches (1943)
John Reginald Ryecart (1947)
Andrew Archer Thomson (1950)
James Cornes (1958)
Charles Nettleship (1965)
James Clive Raybould (1986)
Keith Maudsley (1989)
Guy Rupert Cornwall-Jones (1991)
Brian Pearson (2000)
Ian Duncan Kennedy (2007)
Jim Perryman (2008)

Vicars of Leek Wootton Forward to: Vicars 1558-1656