Rectors of the Parish of Chilfrome
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC Project by Kim Parker
| 1251 | William de LINTON |
| 1263 | William de la WYLE |
| 1297 | Nicholas ate WYLE |
| 1324 | John HARDY |
| 1324 | Richard de LANGETON |
| 1330 | William de ROBELARD |
| 1342 | John HARET |
| 1344 | John HARDY |
| 1348 | William de LUDEFORD |
| 1379 | Henry BYTHE |
| 1399 | Richard / Nicholas ASHWELL |
| 1403 | William CROWTHORNE |
| 1411 | Martin OXBOURNE |
| 1432 | Thomas ALEYN |
| 1433 | Philip CLERK |
| 1441 | William SYLK |
| 1450 | Robert FERBY |
| 1456 | John WYLLYNG or WYLY |
| 1481 | Richard SMITH (still in place in 1503) |
| 1545 | William HILLARYE |
| Records burnt during Bristol riots | |
| 1616 | William DOUCH BA |
| 1620 | Thomas CLEMENT MA |
| 1650 | Thomas CLEMENT |
| 1658 | Paul CLEMENT BA |
| 1676 | John BARNARD |
| 1709 | Robert WAKE BA |
| 1758 | Joseph BAYLEY |
| 1775 | James BRYATT M.A. |
| 1813 | John LEIGH M.A. |
| 1824 | William Cockayne FRITH D.C.L. |
| 1856 | Arthur Leopold Parker SNOW M.A. |
| 1862 | Robert PINKNEY M.A. |
| 1869 | William HOOPER M.A. |
| 1887 | Joseph Henry MACLEAN |
| 1891 | Thomas Humphries CLARK M.A. |
| 1893 | Thomas JACKSON-SMITH B.A. |
| 1909 | Thomas Hill LOWE |
| 1913 | William H. JEFFCOAT M.A. |
| 1923 | Robert P. STICKLAND M.A. |
| 1931 | Arthur Vernon DEANE M.A. |
| 1959 | Christopher F. C. BRINKWORTH |
| 1970 | James FOXCROFT |
| 1974-7 | Gerald Blamire NEWTON |
| Memorials to Rectors in the Church include a slab on the Chancel floor with the following curious inscription: | |
| If you enquire who lies within this frame, | |
| One much more CLEMENT by his life than’s name, | |
| A painful pastor that with Christ did gather, | |
| A lovinge husband, and a tender father. | |
| Here resteth the body of THOMAS CLEMENT, clerk, | |
| who deceased the 18th of June, Ano 1675. | |
| Here resteth the body of THOMAS the sonne of | |
| Thomas CLEMENT and Hester his wife, | |
| who dyed the 26th of October 1676, aged 6. | |