Stanmer Church Vicars

Churches - Bevendean History Project

Stanmer Church
The consecration of the new church and burial ground at Stanmer took place 24 October 1839 by the Bishop of Canterbury – The church was erected on or nearly on the same site as the old one.
There is no record of the Saint to which the old church of Stanmer was dedicated.

Vicars of Stanmer

No date	Thomas Olyver
1487 Sept 20	John Wright
1488 Nov 15	Richard Idon
1490 Mar 29	William Parre
1498-9 Jan 29	Maurice Tyndale
1506 Dec 30	Henry Marchell
1508 May 29	Geoffrey Warburton
1510-1 Jan 29	John Rotheley
1516 Sep 26	Richard Lee
1523 May 8	Richard Bayli
1533 July 9	Stephen Padley
1537 Apr 14	Thomas Heritage
1537 Dec 31	Thomas West
1540 Oct 2	Thomas Fysher
1553 Sept 8	Edmund Stubbs
	William Blackwell
1558 Oct 23	John Upton
1560 Aug 7	William Hall
1562 July 9	Thomas Kynge
1591 Sept 30	Martin Williams
1602 Apr 2	John Wood
1603 Dec 23	Cuthbert Lancaster
1613-4 Feb 27	Henry Tylson
1615 Oct 23	James Harrison
1639 Apr 27	Mathew Playford
1670 May 19	George Stokes
1724 July 22	Robert Lambe
1727 Nov 1	Edward Bland
1770 Mar 6	John Heathfield
1771 Feb 26	George Metcalfe
1803 Mar 1	Thomas Baker
1832 Apr 10	John William Goodley
1838 Feb 23	Charles George Torrington Barlow

Vicars of Stanmer with Falmer from 1858

1858 - 1891	Charles George Torrington Barlow
1891 - 1902	Edward D. Stead
1902 - 1918	Henry Venn Bickerstall
1920 - 1930	Francis Payton Hughes
1930 - 1939	Frank Stanford Morgan
1939 - 1952	Joseph Hanbury Wykes Ashdowne
1952 - 1963	Rev. William Ronald Newton	*
1963 - 1975	Rev. Jack Humphrey Money	*
1976 - 1981	Rev. Bruce Sherwill Hayllar	*
	* Joint benefice with Moulsecoomb
1980 - 2012	Andrew Nesbitt Robinson
2008	Stanmer Church was declared redundant and closed
2013	Rev. Colin Robert Lawlor