Transcribed from a framed document in the church (photo shown):
DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER
RECTORS OF BERWICK
There has been a Church on this site for over on thousand years but the earliest records have not survived.
Rector | Date | ||
Thomas Stalyngfeld | exchanged with | ||
William Godlake | 1389 or 1390 | ||
Thomas Stillingfeld | obit | 1398 | |
Peter Bedale | obit | 1417 | |
John Swan | 1429 | ||
James Ledelyn | 1455 | ||
James Wilson | 1485 | ||
John Preed | 1509 | ||
Thomas Fynes | 1515 | ||
William Fynes | 1553 | ||
John Wyman | 1553 | ||
John Jeffres | 1556 - 1613 | ||
John Nutt, B.A. | obit | 1653 | |
1645 - 1654 the registers bear the signature of Thomas Russell, Minister, a Parliamentarian intruder, put in by Oliver Cromwell. | |||
George Hall | 1665 - 1668 | ||
Augustine Metcalfe, M.A. | 1672 | ||
William Nowell, M.A. | 1695 | ||
John Hawes, M.A. | Father | 1743 | |
John Hawes, M.A. | & son | 1750 | |
Robert Austin, M.A. | 1772 | ||
William Hawes | 1784 | ||
Jeremiah Smith | 1797 | ||
Harry West, M.A. | 1846 | ||
Edward Boys Ellman, M.A. | 1906 | ||
Henry Bennett | 1912 | ||
James Burns, M.A. | 1928 | ||
Albert Roe | 1934 | ||
Horace Nosworthy, M.A. | 1937 | ||
George Mitchell, A.K.C. | 1962 | ||
Robert Collick | 1963 | ||
Stanley Merry | 1972 | ||
David Pope, M.A. | 1976 | ||
Kenneth Grace, B.A. | 1981 | ||
Vickery House, M.A. | 1990 | ||
Peter Smith, B.A. | 2002 | ||
Peter Blee, B.A. |
Berwick was combined with the Parish of Arlington 1951 ~ 1976
It is now combined with the Parish of Selmeston with Alciston ~ 1976
23/01/2008 | Transcribed by Mark Collins |