VICARS OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, AND
THE ABBEY CHURCH, MALMESBURY


From 1301 until the mid 16th century, the parish church of Malmesbury was St. Pauls.  This stood in what is now Birdcage Walk (its steeple remains and is now the Abbey Belltower).

In 1539 Malmesbury Abbey ceased to exist as a monastic community, as a result of the dissolution of the English monasteries by Henry VIII, and in August 1541 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, licensed the Abbey Church to replace St. Paul's as the parish church of Malmesbury.

In 1879 the ancient chapelries of Corston and Rodbourne were made into a separate parish, and St. Mary Westport was united to the Abbey Church.

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	Date	Name
	1301	Reginald de Souple		1616	Anthony Watson       3
	1312	Roger Snell de Alynton		1618	William Noble       2
	1332	Walter Drueys       1*		1633	William Latimer
	1336	John de Ashebi       2		1649	Robert Harpur
	1348	Stephen de Tettebury       3		1659~62	Simon Gawen
	1353	Walter le Walter		1664	John Hodges       2
	1369	Richard de Lokenham       3		1667	Nicholas Adee       3
	1379	John Oseborn		1669	John Clarke       2
	1387	Thomas Wibbe       1		1676	John Binion       2
	1394	John Comeleygh		1701	Christopher Harley       3
	1428	William Butte       1		1705	Thomas Earle       2
	1439	Hugh Thomas       2		1749	John Copson       2
	1462	William Sherewode       2		1786	Henry Strong       2
	1497	Richard de Chaunceller       3		1793	George Bisset       2
	1503	Thomas Long       3		1829	Charles Pitt       2
	1519	William Barlow       2		1874	George Windsor Tucker       2
	1535	Richard Turner       3		1920	Charles Paterson       3
	1544	John Aprice       3		1925	James Deane
	1564	John Skinner       4		1944	Arthur Beaghen
	1565	James Procter       3		1975	Peter Barton
	1566	Thomas Trinder       2		1994	David Littlefair
	1567	John Sarney		2004	Neil Archer
	1611	Matthew Watts       2			* Key: 1 By exchange; 2 Died; 3 Resigned; 4 Deposed.