Vicars of Heathfield, East Sussex


Transcribed from a framed document in the church (photo shown), including the note from the bottom:

Incumbents of Heathfield - Framed in the Church - MTCDate Rector
1256 Dogo
1260 Robert
1380 John de Daventre
1396 John Dyges
1400 John Grenhyll
1424 John Orston
1425 John Mannying
1439 John Lawe
1523 Richard Wyn
1523 Richard Atman
1542 Richard Franke
1543 Francis Hibberden
1567 John Bagge
1576 John Myles
1601 Barnabas Knell
1602 Robert Hunt
1603 Robert Say
1609 John Bowman
1610 John Wallwyn
1612 Reginald Burden
1619 Francis Killingbeck
1648 Robert Evenden
1654 William Wilkin
1699 John Sefton
1713 George Jordon
1743 William Preston
1771 John Russell
1773 Rowland Gibson
1785 Richard Constable
1801 John Dring
1805 George Lock
1822 James Young
1858 William Jackson
1885 Edward Durnford
1886 Gregory W Pennethorne
1913 H Graham Clarke
1939 William D Matthews
1950 Harry Bradburn
1957 Thomas G Savins
1966 Victor Downs
1973 Frank W Tozer
1988 Barry Jackson

The names of the priests who served the parish during the first centuries of its existence are not known, and owing to the loss of the early records, and the casual way in which some later ones were kept, this list is not necessarily complete, even from the sixteenth century.  Till the patronage was transferred to the Bishop in the nineteenth century the Prebendary of Heathfield in Chichester Cathedral was Patron, except in case of lapse or of grant of next presentation.


06/01/2007

Transcribed by Mark Collins

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