Deans and Vicars of Penkridge, 1181 - 1964

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From the earliest times Penkridge was an important ecclesiastical centre. It had a college with a large staff of clergy which ministered to the surrounding areas, rather than just a church.

At the head of the college was a dean. This was a prestigious and lucrative post. We can expect many of the holders to have been absentee priests, especially after 1215 when the sinecure was given by King John to the Archbishop of Dublin and his successors.

Under the dean came the prebendaries. There were eight of these - one for Penkridge and seven others for the outlying villages. It was possible that the prebends could be absentee priests as well. In 1535 the prebend of Penkridge lived in Anglesey.

The wealth of the church came from the payment of tithes, one tenth of all the produce of the land. The college collected these tithes and so acted as the rector of Penkridge.

At the Reformation the Crown confiscated the tithes and then sold them on to laymen. The tithes for Penkridge were bought by the Littleton family who also for the next 300 years or so appointed the vicar of the church.

DEANS of PENKRIDGE

Robert c. 1181

Elias de Bristow 1199

Henry de Loundres 1215 - 1228

Luke 1230

Fulk de Sandford 1256 - 1271

John de Darlington 1279 - 1284

John de Sandford 1286 - 1294

William de Hothum 1296 - 1298

Richard de Feringes 1299 - 1306

Richard de Havering 1307 - 1310

John de Leche 1311 - 1313

Alexander de Bicknor 1317 - 1349

John de St. Paul 1349 - 1362

Thomas Minot 1363 - 1375

Robert de Wikeford 1376 - 1390

Robert Waldby 1391 - 1395

Richard Northalis 1396 - 1397

Thomas Cranley 1397 - 1417

Richard Talbot 1418 - 1449

Michael Tregury 1451 - 1471

John Walton 1472 - 1484

Walter Fitzsimmons 1484 - 1511

William Rokeby 1512 - 1521

Hugh Inge 1521 - 1528

John Alan 1529 - 1534

George Browne 1535 - 1548

VICARS OF PENKRIDGE

Thomas Bolte July 1548

Thomas Sall 1548 - 1549

Nicholas Chedulton

James Riddings 1578

George Horden buried 1597

Rev. Johnson c. 1604

Michael Parkes buried 1617

Thomas Leese buried 1634

John Creche buried 1643

Anon. deprived c. 1646

Nathaniel Hinde September 1653
Nathaniel Hinde, minister of the Gospell at Penkridge was chosen register for the Parish of Penkridge to record the Baptsmes, Marriages and Burialls within the same parish by the free and full consent of the inhabitants. By Vertue of an Act of Parliament.


John Peploe July 1673
The Reverend Mr John Peploe who was admitted Minister of Penkridge in ad 1673 and being incapacitated by old age to officiate resigned the cure to Sir Edward Littleton who nominated the Rev. Thomas Perry to it the same day, March 20th, 1728.


Thomas Perry 1728


(The above names were copied from the introduction to the printed version of Penkridge Parish Register. Keen students will be able to check this at the William Salt Library and see where I have simplified it - ie. missed out bits I do not understand)



James Stafford c. 1793

Richard Slaney c. 1808

James Charles Stafford 1830

Joseph Salt 1833

George Rogers 1845

Edward Hall 1847

James Alexander Fell 1852

Charles Wilbraham 1874

Hon. Cecil James Littleton 1880

Ticehurst Corfield 1893

James Kempson c. 1910 -1937

C.E. Jarman 1937
 
Henry John Carpenter   1943

Theodore Wright 1946

Robert Cheadle   1972

Team Rectors

Geoffrey Staton  1990





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