Priors, Abbots and Vicars who have served at Wymondham Abbey

List of Priors

1130
 
Nigel, the first Prior
 
1136
 
Alexius Galienus
 
1160
 
Ralf de Nuers, a monk of St Alban's
 
1200
 
Ralf de Dunstable
 
1210
 
Ralf de Stanham
 
1215
 
Alexander de Langley
 
1217
 
Ralf de Whiteby, formerly prior of the cell at Whiteby
 
c.1224
 
Thomas Medicus
 
1257

 
Willaim of StAlban's
(died on St George's Day 1262. His remains lie interred in the Choir)
 
1264

 
William de Horton.
Roger de Hare, or Here
 
1286

 
Adam Poleyn, or Pulleyn.
(He died on Christmas Day, 1303 and was buried here)
 
1303
 
John de Stevenache
 
1308
 
Ralf
 
1317

 
Brother John de Hurlee
Hugh of St Alban's
 
1334
 
Brother Richard of Hethersete
 
1347
 
Brother Henry de Stukeley
 
1368
 
Brother Nicholas de Radcliffe
 
1380
 
Brother William Killingworth, Archdeacon of St Alban's
 
1394
 
Brother Thomas Walsingham
 
1400
 
Brother John Savage
 
1405
 
Brother William Royden
 
1416
 
Brother John Isham
 
1420
 
Brother William Alnwyk, (afterwards Bishop of Norwich)
 
1425
 
Brother John Hatfield, Doctor in the Decrees
 
1437
 
Brother Peter Waleys, or Wallis
 
1446
 
Brother Stephen London
 

List of the Abbots

1448
 
Stephen London
 
1466
 
Brother William Bokenham. (First a monk of Norwich and prior of the Cell at Yarmouth)
 
1471
 
Brother John Kertelying
 
1502
 
Brother John
 
1511
 
Thomas Chandeler, a monk of St Faith's
 
1514
 
Thomas Chamberlain
 
1517
 
John Bransforth
 
1520
 
John, Lord Bishop of Lechlin, in Ireland
 
1526
 
William Castleton, who resigned this for the Priory of Norwich, of which he was prior at the time of the Dissolution, and the first dean.
 
1532
 
Eligius, or Elisha Ferrers, the last abbot.
 

List of the Vicars

1221
 
Walter, the first vicar
 
1234
 
William de Buckenham
 
1251
 
Nicholas de Burgh
 
1260
 
Richard
 
1280
 
Nigel Tayn
 
1290
 
Baldwin, the prior's nephew
 
1317
 
Robert Wauncey, of King's Walden
 
1333
 
Henry de Mashworth
 
1349

 
Richard Estrild
Richard, son of John Richard of Kimberley.
 
1365
 
John se Stukele
 
1388
 
Thomas de Killingworth (buried in the church in 1397)
 
1397
 
Thomas Praty
 
1408
 
Robert Basage
 
1424
 
Thomas Pilecok
 
1434
 
John Girding
 
1466
 
Thomas Draper
 
1479
 
Robert Irby
 
1499
 
Thomas Porter
 
1513
 
John Drye, A.M.
 
1538
 
Eligius Ferrers, then Abbot
 
1539
 
Henry King, Prebend of Norwich
 
1555
 
William Wyliss
 
1556


 
Thomas Briggs
Sir Harvey Hoping
Mr Mason
 
1573
 
Thomas Lewger
 
1581
 
Anthony Carington
 
1581
 
John Woodfall
 
1590
 
Simon Wells
 
1607
 
Edward Agas
 
1629
 
Joshua Meen
 
1660
 
Henry Younger
 
1663
 
John Marshall
 
1676
 
Francis Lewes
 
1683
 
Thomas Baron
 
1686
 
Thomas Wright
 
1691
 
William Hawys
 
1701
 
George Taylor (buried in the Vestry)
 
1737
 
Robert Cremer, who held the benefice united to Ashill
 
1768
 
James Bentham
 
1768
 
Peter Petit
 
1788
 
William Papillon
 
1836
 
Daniel Jones
 
1848
 
Theyre Townsend Smith
 
1852
 
Robert Jarrold King
 
1854
 
Robert Eden, Hon. Canon of Norwich
 
1898
 
The Hon. Archibald Parker
 
1905
 
Daniel Collyer (sometime Archdeacon of Malta)
 
1911
 
Samuel Martin Jones
 
1932
 
Frederick Jarvis, Hon. Canon of Norwich
 
1953
 
James Godfrey Tansley Thomas, Hon. Canon of Norwich
 
1974
 
George Rumney Hall, Hon. Canon of Norwich
 
1988
 
Grant Keith Welch
 
1989
 
John Edgar Barnes
 
1995
 
Brian Leonard Gant, Hon. Canon of Kumasi Cathedral, Ghana
 
2001
 
Martin William Smith, Hon. Canon of Norwich
 
2006
 
Christopher Davies, Hon. Canon of Southwark