Vicars of Winterton

A near-continuous list of the vicars of All Saints’, stretching back some eight hundred years to around AD 1220.

The list below is based on the two wooden plaques on the wall by the Tower inside the church, with further details published by Arthur Ecclestone (shown in the notes column). The list starts at about AD 1220.

NameDate of AccessionNotes
Thomas de Wintrington
William de Insula1228
Roger de Ancaster1232
Simon1246Until 1247
Willelmus1258Until 1279
William1285Died
Mag. Geoffrey de Holme1285
John de Styvelington1326
John de Tyrington1349Died 7 August
Robert de Ludington1349
William Crispyne1367
Dom. Robert de Nafferton1368
Mag. William Uppehall1386
John Turner1394
Mag. Thomas Barton1402Resigned 1 May
John Grantham1402
John Nicoll1404
Dom. William Partenaye
Dom. William Greyne1417
Dom. Robert Crake1421Resigned 21 July
John Trower1421
Dom. John Wyghton1458Inst. 24 April. Died 19 July
Dom. John Dyghton1458Died 4 August 1461
Dom. Christopher Cape1461Resigned 1473
Dom. Robert Deykyn1473
Fr. Roger Shotton1493Prior of Malton. Inst. Vicar 24 September
Dom. Christopher Cape1493Inst. 27 October on resignation of above
Dom. Thomas Spenythorn1497
Dom. Robert Wright1504
Dom. John Masham1528
Dom. William Morley1541
Robert Dowson1567Transferred to Roxby
Robert Wilbee1584Until 1599
Thomas Grave1600
Abraham Smith1604Married daughter of Robert Wilbee
John Kinde1612
Thomas Chimley1618Chirnley?
*Robert Medley1623Until 1666
E. Boteler1666Vic. Locum Tenens pro Tempore
*Lawrence Elletson1672
*George Lauder1697
*Lowde Bankes1714
*Edward Wilsford1716On resignation of above
*Richard Studley1724
*William Kirke1740
*Anthony Weatherhead1749
*William Harrison1779
*Thomas W. Northmore1827On death of above
*Thomas Smith1829
John Thomas Smith1856Son of above; became Baptist minister
Thomas Waddingham1859On resignation of above in 1858
George Cha. Dickinson1863
Edward S. Wilson1873On resignation of above
Charles B. Gibbons1898
R. B. Luard-Selby M.A.1917
H. D. Henderson1925
Herbert Malkinson1929
Ralph de Voil1945
Leslie Garrett B.A.1948
Dom. H. D. Henderson O.B.E.1951
Edmund Troup B.A., M.C.1955
A.W.J. Burton M.A.1962
Brian M. Dodds A.K.C.1983
David Edgar B.A., B.Th.1991
Alice C. Nunn2001

Those names marked above with an asterisk (*) are listed in the Clergy of the Church of England Database, which seeks to identify all Church of England clergy between 1540 and 1835. Some of the accession dates vary by a year or so, and Robert Medley is also shown as having had a second accession in 1662, presumably after the upheavals and changes during and after the Civil War period.

There are three additional names on the database, all curates rather than vicars: Francis Turpin, listed for 1681; Stephen Moore, for 1771; and Henry William Richter, for 1824.