THE RECTORS AND CURATES OF LIDGATE
1302  Walter Maunsel
1324  Walter Wancy
1328  Robert de Wancy
1350  Walter Amyas
1377  Robert Vauncey
1380  Thomas Attewell
           John Tuttebury
1441   Richard Langham (Chaplain)
1446   Rad Vaske
1458   Thomas Taylor
1461   Newport
1474   Richard Johnson
1496   George Newton
1505   Edmund Dikman
1527   Richard Toppying
1558   Thomas Simpson
1576   Oliver Sarson
1625   Gabriel Catchpole
1650   Mr. Ward
1660   Gabriel Catchpole
1670   Christopher Cutting
1701   Samuel Fairclough
1740   Gilbert Affleck
           James Moore
1766   James Fish Palmer
1767   John Isaacson (Senior)


1799    William Butcher
1803   John Isaacson (Junior)
1829   H . W. Salmon
1841   W.J. Travis
1844   James Jackson
1851   Richard Wood
1854   John Gordon
1858   R. H. Cave (from Barbados)
1871   Robert Kettle
1889   E. Audrey Gray
1927   Leonard L. Butcher
1954   A.J. Talbot-Easter, M.A.
1956   Laurence B.C. Newell, M.A.
1966   Edward P. Whalley, M.A.
1973   Derek Hill, A.K.C.
1975   Arnold Freeman, A.K. C
1980   Donal Bronwne, M.C., M.A.
1981   Geoffrey Whitefield, M.A.
1990   Eric Crouchman
1997   Parish Vacant
1999   Ian Finn, A.K.C.
1547  Our Church registers begin


Rev. Catchpole ejected in 1650  during Puritan ascendency- replaced by Mr. Ward. He  in turn ejected at the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and  Catchpole reinstated.


Four children die in infancy


Four children die in infancy

James Moore Chaplain to His Majesty's 67 Regiment of Foot and killed in riding accident
Married Mary Pawsey of Hall Farm
Five children die in infancy
1828  Edward Lindsall (Curate)
1838  John Bullen (Curate)
1839  J. Halstead (Curate)
1840  Charles Dowding (Curate) Resided at Cropley Grove during building of new Rectory
1842   New Rectory Built





1923  Lidgate joined with  Ousden Parish
         Rectory transferred to Ousden







New Rectory built in Lidgate




Rectory transferred to Wickhambrook  with creation of the Bansfield Benefice comprising
the parishes of Lidgate, Ousden, Wickhambrook,
Stradishall, Denston, Stansfield, Cowlinge.
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