Inside
the church you will find this decorative poster of the rectors of
St John the Baptist. The list reads as follows, with the date, rector's
name and patron in brackets,
1170
Wilhelmus (Thomas A. Becket)
1200 Ricardus (Thomas A. Becket)
1239 Walter (Thomas A. Becket)
1272 Oto de Chaumpvent (The King)
1288 Robert de Terringe (John Peckham)
1315 Robert de Norton (Walter Reynolds)
1316 William de Dedewunde (Walter Reynolds)
1328 Henry de Fulham (The King)
1349 William Huntelowe (The King)
1359 William Harewell (Simon Islip)
1378 Henry Brandon (Simon de Sudbury)
1378 Robert Walsham (Simon de Sudbury)
1378 John Young (Simon de Sudbury)
1379 William Daper (Simon de Sudbury)
1379 Robert Walsham (Simon de Sudbury)
1379 John Parker (Simon de Sudbury)
1403 Andrew Coryton (Thomas Arundel)
1419 Thomas Drury (Henry Chichele)
1420 John Acton (Henry Chichele)
1435 Robert Toft (Henry Chichele)
1435 John Charlton (Henry Chichele)
1440 Robert Smoth (Henry Chichele)
1440 John Chamberlaun (Henry Chichele)
1481 William Sutton (Thomas Bourchier)
1483 Edmund Gilbert (Thomas Bourchier)
1483 Robert Gosborn (Thomas Bourchier)
1521 Oliver Godferey (William Warham)
1550 John Mone (Thomas Cranmer)
1554 John Armerar (The Queen)
1563 William Dartnoll (Sir Henry Sidney)
1596 John Duske (Sir Robert Sidney)
1617 Francis Sidney (Sir Robert Sidney)
1633 Henry Hammond (Earl of Leicester)
1650 John Mandit (The Committee of Parliament)
1660 Thomas Lee (Earl of Leicester)
1710 William Egerton (Earl of Leicester)
1738 Samuel Lindsey (Earl of Leicester)
1743 Hopton Williams (Earl of Leicester)
1770 Hon. Henry Beauclerk (Elizabeth Pearce)
1773 Sir Richard Bycroft Bart. D.D. (Elizabeth Pearce)
1786 Matthew Nicholas
1796 (Jonathan Hammond) (John Shelley Sidney)
1819 Philip Stanhope Dodd (John Shelley Sidney)
1852 William Green (Richard Green)
1878 George Maberly Smith (Lord de L'Isle)
1916 Edmund Hugh Bycroft (Lord de L'Isle)
1927 James Cropper (Lord de L'Isle)
1936 Peveril Hayes Turnbull (Lord de L'Isle)
1949 Samuel Gordon Hooper (Lord de L'Isle V.C.)
1956 William Steuart Pears (Viscount de L'Isle V.C.)
1961 Anthony Bruce Curry (Viscount de L'Isle V.C.)
1977 John Christopher Tadman (Viscount de L'Isle V.C. K.G.)
1985 Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle (Viscount de L'Isle V.C. K.G.)
There
are also details of the reigning monarch(s) at the time of each rector's
imcumbency, and there are further notes of interest at the bottom
of the poster.
