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
1569
Hill
1572
1577 George
Webb
1582 poss.
William Negus
1587 to Leigh (see Denham Classis)
1587 John
Ward
1597 John
Shelton
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