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Norwell St Laurence

List of Incumbents

The list of Vicars, as it appears in the church

Norwell had a priest at the time of Domesday (1086), but the first known incumbent was Master Vacarius (c1166-1200). He was a canon of Southwell, holding the prebend of Norwell Overhall. He is known to have resided personally in Norwell and acted as parson. Following an agreement in 1284, and down to the early eighteenth century, Norwell normally had two priests or vicars appointed respectively by the prebendaries of Norwell Overhall and Norwell Tertia Pars to perform pastoral duties in the parish, each holding a share (mediety) of the vicarage. The third prebendary attached to Norwell church, Palishall, although richer than Tertia Pars, did not appoint a vicar. The first vicar appointed to hold the two medieties of Norwell jointly was John Townsend (1718-45), though his predecessor Samuel Lloyd (1695-1717) had held both simultaneously. In the late twentieth century the vicar of Norwell has normally also simultaneously held other livings as a joint-benefice. In 2008 Norwell benefice includes Caunton, Cromwell and Ossington, and is held by a Priest-in-Charge, who also holds the benefice of Sutton on Trent with Carlton on Trent, Normanton on Trent and Marnham.

Medieties combined

Prebendaries of Norwell

Norwell is unique among the churches which supported prebendaries serving the Minster at Southwell since it eventually had three prebends, two apparently established by the mid 11th century (Norwell Overhall and Norwell Palishall) to which Norwell Tertia Pars was added c1200. The old prebendal system at Southwell was not abolished until 1841, the last prebendaries being allowed to hold their titles for life so that the system only finally ceased in 1873. In 1884 honorific prebends for the new diocese of Southwell were created, using the old titles, but those appointed now had few, if any, links with the parish from which they took these. The list below summarises briefly what is currently known about succession to each prebend, including the modern honorific prebends. The abbreviations O, P and TP indicate the respective prebends.

Honorific prebendaries