Rectors at St Mary
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC by Kim Parker
Henry I by Charter dated Marleberg 1100 confirmed to the Abbey of Tewkesbury the tithe of Ceotel which Robert de Haia gave that Church. The ancient patrons were the Abbots of Tewkesbury. Since the Dissolution, the Lords of the Manor have been patrons.
| 1210 | William de Teisse |
| John de Abetot | |
| 1325 | Robert de Leycester |
| Robert Worthy | |
| 1392 | John Teukesbury |
| 1393 | John Skymer |
| 1401 | Ealfrid Ludlowe |
| 1404 | Thomas Pentecombe |
| 1416 | John Brice |
| 1420 | Richard Lasinden |
| 1473 | John Turbevile |
| 1525 | Robert Ratliff |
| 1558 | Roger Philips |
| 1579 | James Feltham |
| 1608 | Robert Palmer |
| 1640 | George Lovel |
| 1641 | Richard Rock |
| 1675 | Edward Osbourn |
| 1690 | Edward Lowe |
| 1693 | Charles Dobson |
| 1750 | William Feltham |
| 1756 | William Chafin |
| 1768 | Richard Blackmore |
| 1769 | George Townsend |
| 1776 | Robert Frome |
| 1782 | James Lewis |
| 1788 | Henry Good |
| 1789 | Christopher Erle |
| 1810 | John Tregonwell Napier |
| 1820 | John West |
| 1867 | W.H. Augustus Truell |
| 1881 | W. Blackford Hill |
| 1904 | Charles Spencer Rowland |
| 1912 | Edward A. Newton |
| 1916 | E.H. Couchman |
| 1917 | George Edward Long |
| 1925 | William E.C. Henry |
| 1936 | Canon C. H. Whitfield |
| 1939 | A.G. Ford |
| 1942 | E.A.R. Nicholl |
| 1952 | William S. Syson |
| Priests-in-Charge | |
| 1957 | C.I. Ellingham |
| 1958 | H.W. Wheeler |
| 1965 | H.O. Mason |
| Resident Priests | |
| 1970 | Ian H.S. Stratton |
| 1973 | G.M. Neill |
| 1979 | L.J.F. Peacock |
| 1980 | Frederick J. Legge |
| 1985 | K.B. Edwards |
| 1986 | Bryan E.P. Blyth |
| 1998 | William H.G. Johnstone |