Caunton St Andrew

List of Incumbents

Incumbents of the Parish

The list of incumbents
in the church
Date Incumbent
1306 William de Holm
1318 Thomas
1470 William Hull
  John Barker
  John Hardy
1535 James Lee (Leghe)
  William Olyver
1541 William Smythe
1555 James Lee
1555 - 1557 Richard Stanshall/Stanshare
1557 Roger Jackeson
1561 Robert Fraser
1567 Hugh Hole
1579 – 1591 Matthew Boyle
1610 John Smvidy
1617 – 1638 Richard Hewes
1641 Thomas Infield
1649 Francis Burton
1661 Edward Overend
1664 – 1699 Thomas Salter
1708 George Benlowes
1731 Thomas Leach
1755 William Harding
1778 James Burnell
1817 Joseph Lister
1838 Charles Fletcher
1850 Samuel Reynolds Hole
1888 Henry Bryan McConnager Holden
1891 John Tinkler
1924 Arthur Alcock Baillie
1925 Thomas Stanley Lupton
1935 James Spencer Granville Barley
1949 Richard George Hall
1954 Eric William Trueman Dicken
1965 Wilfred Lawson Archer
1973 Robert Purdon Neill
1976 William Harvey Snow
1979 Charles Kemp Buck
1982 Vacant
1990 Robert Andrew Whittaker
1996 Anthony I Tucker
2005 Sheila Dixon

Priests of the Chantry of St Marie

‘The chauntrie of our ladye founded by Robert Caunton for a preste to saye masse for his soule and all Christian soullis, 1349’. Southwell Minster chantry rolls, 1548.

Date Chantry priest
1349 Sir William Port(er)
d. 1470 John Boteler
1470 Ralph Rolleston
  John Whitemoor
1482 Christopher Whitemoor
1535 William Whitmoor
1536 William Footate
1537 William Whitmoor
1537 Richard Stanshare/Stanshall
1539 Dissolution of monasteries and chantries by Henry VIII
1547 Partial restoration of chantries by Edward VI
1548 Richard Stanshare/Stanshall
1558 Final dissolution of chantries by Elizabeth I