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)