Inside
the church can be found this poster, made in 1997 by the Bartons History
Group, detailing the incumbents of the Church of St Mary the Virgin,
Steeple Barton. The list reads as follows:
Only
known Rector
1177, 1186 William of St John
Vicars
1375-1400 Walter Joust
1464-1475 William Poole
1509-1510 William Barton
1510? William Morgan
c1530 John Rogers
1546? Giles Bylked (Bilhede)
1551 James pollarde
1555 William Hardwicke
1557-1560 Hugh Stepley, Thomas Bromell, William Browne
1560-1577 John Boldren
c1601-163? Robert Smith, Lewis Boughen (Bowen)
1639 John Couch
1640 Thomas Belcher
1661 Edward Cockson
1712 Charles Young
1722 John Hyde
1729 Pierpoint Taylor
1736 John Bruere (Brewer)
1741 Anthony Apperley
1772 Edward Walker
1807 George Boune
1808 Robert Wright
1816-1837 Served by William Gorden from Duns Tew
1837-1839 Curate William Wellwood Stoddart
1839-1848 Served by Thomas Oakley from Enstone
1850 Arthur Hercules Pakenham
1855 William Green
1876 Frederic Parry Burnett
1880-1881 Curate William Newman (not related to William J H Newman)
1885 William George Southwell
1889 William James Hermann Newman
1895 George Duncan
1898 Spencer Henry Harrison
1904 Simon Stephen
1946 Arthur W Blanchett
1951 James Wilmot Griffiths (He held the Benefice in plurality with
Westcote Barton. 1960 Benefices of Steeple Barton and Westcote Barton
were united.)
1968 Norman David John Carne
1975 Peter Patrick Dance (1977 Benefices of Steeple Barton, Westcote
Barton, Sandford St Martin and Duns Tew were united.)
1989 Anthony William Davies
1997 Graeme Richard Arthur
The
information was taken from parochial records, Canon Oldfield's Clerus,
Wing, Annals of Steeple Barton and Westcot Barton, and The
Victoria County History, Vol XI.
