Papplewick St James

List of Incumbents

The early church was served by the canons of Newstead Priory until the dissolution of the monasteries. Papplewick was held in plurality with Annesley or Blidworth until 1855 when it was united to the living of Linby by Order in Council 1855.

The rectors since then have been:

1855

John Lawrence Prior

1876

William Charles Weddall

1913

Anthony Berkeley Reid

1941

Leslie Illingworth Butler

1959

Harold Theophilus Pritchard

1963

Leonard Ralph Barker

1978

Peter Martin Goldthorpe

1983

Keith Howard Turner (retired in 2015)