Parish Records of St Mary-le-Tower The Parish records are
stored at the Suffolk
Record Office in Ipswich which offers a search service.
The register of baptisms dates from 1538 but the earliest surviving ones for marriages and burials go back only to1614. e-mail address for contacting the record office in Ipswich
ipswich.ro@libher.suffolk.gov.uk
Incumbents of St Mary-le-Tower
From 1177 until 1538 the Augustinian Priory of Holy Trinity in Ipswich provided the clergy to minister at the Tower. Thereafter the appointment to the living, which was " a Perpetual Curacy " was in the hands of the parishioners. Nowadays the Vicar of the parish is presented by the Bishop (for three turns out of four, the Church Patronage Trust taking the fourth). 1220 Turstan (of Ipswich Church) 1251 Roger chaplain 1437 Nicholas Wymbyssh or Walter Disse 1443 Andrew Woodhouse 1446 Adam Sabyn 1449 Thomas Lamberd 1451 William Clerk 1455 William Smyth 1464 John Drayll 1485 Thomas Wade 1499 Thomas Tybenham 1510 William Lark 1512 William Baron 1536 Thomas Peacock 1555 John Somerton 1555 Edmund Gooding (June) 1569 Hill 1572 1577 George Webb 1582 poss. William Negus 1587 to Leigh see Denham Classis 1587 John Ward 1597 John Shelton [curate £12 ] 1606 Nathaniel Roe 1609 Thomas Webb 1615 Thomas Nuttall 1616 John Ward 1620 John Gooding 1624 Samuel Ward 1627 Jonathan Skinner 1636 1630 Richard Raymond 1632 Samuel Ward again 1635 John Ashburne (Ward’s son-in-law) 1636 Nullus Curatus 1637 Gawen Nash 1642 William Fincham 1656 John Chapman 1657 Benjamin Brunning ? 1662 John Burrough 1670 Hugh Roberts 1674 Samuel? Brunning 1677 Samuel Golty 1678 Joseph Cutlove 1708 Thomas Bishop DD 1737 Thomas Bishop junior 1778 Thomas Cobbold 1831 Francis Cobbold 1838 William Nassau Leger later St Leger 1861 James Robert Turnock 1890 Ythil Arthur Barrington 1904 William Pigot 1915 Hamilton Douglas-Hamilton 1924 Arthur Wallace 1928 Arthur Streeten 1942 Richard Babington 1958 Basil Spurgin 1972 Geoffrey John Tarris 1982 Keith Brynmor Jones 1996 Peter K. Townley |
