Newstead Abbey St Mary

List of Incumbents

There have been four somewhat different periods, reflecting the way in which priests have served the Abbey Chapel:

Period following the appointment of the first Abbey Chaplain in 1882

Period when the Abbey Chaplain provided Ministry for the Newstead Colliery community

Period when the Chapel was in the Parish of Annesley with Newstead

Period after the Chapel had been transferred to the Parish of Ravenshead

1882	Curtis Jackson
1875	E J Whitaker
1876	James Rhodes Ashworth
1889	Richard Hiscock Whitworth
On or around 1889, the Abbey Chapel Chaplains began to hold additional services in various colliery and other buildings in Newstead village.
1897	Matthew Archbold Dodds
1902	Ralph Woodward
1908	John Philip Ivens
1919	Herbert Heath Summers
1920	James Williams
1927	Keith Bertie Frampton
In 1928 the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Newstead Village was built and dedicated and K R Frampton became its first Incumbent.

1928	Keith Bertie Frampton
1931	James Henry Frary
1934	John George Fryer
1936	Robert William Ellis
1937	Ralph Pattison
1941	Francis Norman Chatfield
1947	Jack Wright Busby
1957	Denis Alfred Nightingale
In 1959 the Chaplaincy/Incumency became vacant and was never filled. In 1963, the Diocese created a new Parish and appointed a Vicar of Annesley with Newstead

1963	Frank Lyons
1980	Alan Sydney George Hart
1987	John C Wilson
1997	vacancy
1999	Linda A Church
2003	vacancy
2004	Elizabeth Turner-Loisel
2014	vacancy
In October 2015, a Pastoral Scheme was brought into being whereby part of the Parish of Annesley with Newstead was transferred to the Parish of Ravenshead, and as a consequence, responsibility for the Abbey Chapel was assumed by the Vicar of Ravenshead. The Scheme further provided for the union of the benefice of St John the Evangelist, Kirkby Woodhouse, and the benefice of Annesley with Newstead. (The churches served by this new benefice are Annesley All Saints, Newstead St Mary the Virgin and Kirkby Woodhouse St John the Evangelist).
2015	Christopher Rattenberry