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St. Peter & St. Paul of Bromley, Kent
Church Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 0EG
020 8464 5244
St. Peter & St, Paul
Church of England
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Rectors

 
The Rectors, Perpetual Curates and Vicars of Bromley Parish Church
 
1226 Richard de Wendover   Gap of fifty years
1290 Elva 1292 Abel de Sancto Martino
  Gap of twenty years ? William de Bliburgh
1316 John de Frendsburie 1329 Hugh de Penebregge
1333 William de Wycklewood or de Boyleston 1349 Walter de Hythe
1361 Robert Carey 1361 John Verieu
1361 Thomas Bay 1362 John Salthorn
1365 Adam Pykeman   Gap of some twenty years
1389 John Scharynton 1391 Richard de Sudbury
1402 Roger atte Church 1405 Henry Hamonde
1406 Richard Braunche ? Thomas Pellycan
1421 Thomas Gyles 1424 John Pye
1431 John Wirkworth 1431 Thomas Lewisham
1439 John Boner 1440 William Middleton
1448 William Fryston 1453 Richard Fryston
1457 John Chamberlayne 1465 Richard Wymando
1470 Robert Somersby 1471 William Shelton
1483 John Richardson 1500 Sir Harry -
1502 Robert Sandys 1502 William Horsey L.L.D.
1524 Richard Sharp S.T.B. 1530 John Adeson D.D.
1533 1533 Emery Tukfold or Tuffelde    
 
In 1537 the rectory by order of Henry VIII was transferred to the Bishops of Rochester who were to appoint, ordain and sufficiently endow Perpetual Vicars. The incumbents therefore lost their rectorial status and were from 1537 vicars or perpetual curates.
 
1537 Ralph Tylney 1551 Edmund Trevell
1554 Richard Wolston 1557 Thomas Hatherstole
1570 John Hughes 1576 Christofer Hills
1588 Richard Wallis 1603 James Dyer
1607 Stephen Constantine 1607 John Preston
1611 Joseph Grenne 1620 Jasper Carrow
1624 William Wallis 1627 John Hodges
1628 Noah Webb 1630 Robert Rainsford
1634 Richard Rathbone or Rathborne 1639 Thomas Smith
1640 William Thomas 1640 Robert Antrobus
1646 John Harvey 1646 Walter Artson
1646 Joseph Jackson 1648 Henry Arnold
1663 Richard Marsh 1666 Thomas Pike
1667 Daniel Baston or David Burton 1669 Stenning
1670 Edmund Lee or Lees 1670 Edmund Lee or Lees
1678 Stephen Grasscombe 1682 George Wilson
1684 Thomas Johnson 1686 Edward Roman
1690 Henry Maundrell 1695 Samuel Bowles
1698 Narington Bagshaw 1739 Joseph Sims
1744 Thomas Bagshaw M.A. 1785 Henry Smith D.D.
1818 John Baker M.A. 1819 James Edward Newell
1826 James Edward Newell 1865 Arthur Greasley Hellicar M.A.
1904 Donald Tait M.A. 1915 Joseph Kershaw Wilson M.A.
1930 Basil Fredrick William Relton M.A. 1941 William Heward Murray Walton M.A.
1962 Henry David Halsey B.A. 1968 Philip Harold Ernest Goodrich M.A
1973 David Henry Bartleet M.A. 1983 Michael Peter Beek M.A.
1993 Peter Lock A.K.C. 2001 Michael Maurice Camp B.Th. M.A.
 
The list above is the result of exhaustive research in the Rochester Registers, the Acta Curia Consistoria, the Harleian MSS, the Close Rolls and other documents.
 
Last Revised: 11/09/2005