Year Served

Priest

Notes

1688-1701

Richard Levison S.J.                 

1702-1719 

Robert Manning                         

(died at Ingatestone 1731, buried in the Anglican parish church, Ingatestone)

1719-1771

John Dudley Diggs                                

assisted by John Sudell 1769-1771

1771-1776

John Sudell                                            

also served by Christopher Taylor (who was the missioner at Thorndon Hall, 1762-1786)

1776-1784

Charles Berington  D.D.                          

assisted by Thomas Gabb in 1773

1784-1805

Thomas Berington                                 

 (who had resided at Ingatestone Hall since 1779)

1805-1823

John Clarkson                                         

  (who had resided at Ingatestone Hall since 1803; buried in the Anglican churchyard, Ingatestone)

1823-1825

James Quin                                              

1825-1828

Philip John Mark O’Reilly O.P.                

1827-1832

John Law                                                

(overlapped with O’Reilly for a few months)

1832-1892

George Edward Last                                 

(Canon of Westminster, 1852; buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery, Ingatestone) assisted by Joseph Heditch 1891-1892

1892

Henry Murray (pro-tem)                              

1892-1904

Edmund Meyer                                            

1904-1934

Roderick James Archibald Grant                 

(Canon of Brentwood, 1927; first priest at new church, 1932)

1934-1935

Francis Branney (Priest-in-charge)               

1935-1965

Hugh Cecil Verity                                          

(buried in Fryerning cemetery) Assisted by James Anthony Allis 1964-1965

1965-1968

James Anthony Allis                                     

1968-1969

Patrick William Curran Ph.D.                         

1969-1972

Alan Kingston Wilcox B.A.                             

1972-1980

Edmund Tyler J.C.L.                                        

1972-1980

John M. Glynn                                                

1988-2000

Gordon Francis Read M.A., B.D., J.C.L.          

2000-2005

Christopher Brooks  M.A., S.T.B., Ps.L., F.C.A. 

 (Vicar General 2000, Domestic Prelate 2001)

2005- 

David Manson LL.B., S.L.L.,                                    

(Vicar General & Domestic Prelate 2001)