List of Stotfold Vicars

Advowson 

The advowson of Stotfold is mentioned in the Victoria County History, Vol. II, 1908. It states that the advowson and rectory of Stotfold belonged to the priory of Chicksands. At the Dissolution the value of the rectory was estimated at £12, and together with the advowson it was granted in 1547 to Trinty College, Cambridge, to which both still belong.

List of Rectors and Vicars

• 1231 – Roger de Bedeford
• Adam de Henlawe
• 1307 – John de Schitlingdon
• 1311 – Robert de Aspele
• 1312 – John de Stotfold
• 1328 – Richard de Heyworth
• 1349 – Thomas de Asshewell
• Ralph Berford
• 1369 – Richard Gayne
• 1371 – Thomas Hayward
• 1375 – William de Westhorp
• John Harpole
• 1382 – Robert Bourgh
• Elyas Whiceheford
• 1390 – Richard Wellys
• 1396 – Robert Maunsell
• Walter Dunstall;
• 1400 – Nicholas Couper
• 1419 – Richard Brodered
• 1421 – Richard Pavenham
• 1434 – John Throbber
• 1435 – Robert Lorimer
• 1473 – Brother Thomas Tetnam
• 1509 – Robert Ulsbe
• 1526 – Robert Peyrson
• 1536 – John Ryplay
• 1548 – William Tybye
• 1583 – Richard Freeman
• 1583 – Philip Manfild M.A
• 1589 – Thomas Bentham B.A
• 1595 – George Fisher
• 1597 – Richard Weaver M.A
• 1643 – John Freston
• 1645 – Simon Botreaux
• Robert Whitehead
• 1652 – Rees Thomas [or Thomas Rees]
• 1671 – Richard Midgeley
• 1674 – Thomas Ford
• 1676 – William Knight M.A
• 1682 – John Wyborne B.A
• 1684 – John Price B.A
• 1711 – William Iliff
• 1718 – Peter Selby
• 1727 – Edward Brooke
• 1747 – Thomas Butterfield B.A
• 1752 – William Salter
• 1754 – Samuel Roe M.A
• 1780 – Henry Charles Christian Newman B.A
• 1824 – John Brasse
• 1833 – Allen William Chatfield
• 1847 – Joseph Finch Fenn M.A
• 1860 – Arthur Eyres Ellis M.A
• 1887 – William Edward Jackson
• 1893 – John Holding
• 1905 – Charles Edward Leighton
• 1923 – Charles John Penrice
• 1929 – Edgar Ernest Empringham
• 1943 – Anthony Ernest Grain
• 1948 – Gwilym Caswallan Howell Phillips
• 1961 – John Wilfrid Hollies Bullock
• 1968 – Vernon Leslie North
• 1993 – Stephen G. Pugh
• 2000 – Patricia M. Quint

Ecclesiastical Census 

On Sunday 30th March 1851 a census of all churches, chapels and preaching-houses of every denomination was undertaken in England and Wales. The local results were published by Bedfordshire Historical Records Society in 1975 as Volume 54, edited by D. W. Bushby. The return for Stotfold church noted the following pieces of information:

• The church had 499 sittings (253 free, 246 other)
• The general congregation had been 85 in the morning, 125 in the afternoon.
• Sunday scholars had been 77 in the morning, 72 in the afternoon