Did you know that Lincoln Cathedral is actually in the parish of St Mary Magdalene which is the church just through the arches between Minster Yard and Castle Hill. Nipped in yesterday and had a nice chat with the folks in there. They typically get 15 to 20 worshippers in for Sunday Service. It isn’t the most accessible of churches as the Bail is often closed off for events.
When we lived in Greetwell Gate we were notionally within the parish of the cathedral but now we know it was St Mary Magdalene. Extends as far as the Peacock at the end of Greetwell Gate I believe.
They didn’t have a hymn list on the board as a printed order of service is handily provided. They do also hand out hymn books which is a practice abandoned at St Peter’s since covid times.
There is however a list of incumbents that I herewith provide for your information and interest.
ST MARY MAGDALENE LINCOLN INCUMBENTS
VICAR
? Geoffrey de Whicham – Chaplain
1250 Godred- [previously chaplain]
RECTOR
1275 John de North Leverton
1293 William de Blighburgh
1305 William de Harpeswelle
capalanus
? John de Bolun alias Bohun
1322 Richard de Hilletoft
1340 Ranulfus de Harrington
? John Branspath – qui obit 1376
? John de Searle
1384 Walter de Windesore
1403 Robert de Hoggesthorpe
1406 William Skaytt
1422 Robert Gylman
1453 John Walpole
1456 William Kirksgarth
1461 John Sharpe
1468 John Waltham
1484 William Skelton
1492 Henry Farley
1520 Thomas Willson
1522 Nicholas Bayte
1527 John Cook, Walter Ireland, Robert Kelsey
1529 Christopher Massinberd
1551 Robert Arnold
1552 Bartholomew Warde
1558 Robert Taylor
1560 Edward Parker
1564 Richard Halliwell
1565 William Mann
1570 Jeremias Loveday
1583 Christopher Diggles
1608 Peter Walter
1623 John Crispe
1665 Walter Powell
1712 Anthony Reid – qui obit 1714
1714 Johannes Crisp
1721 Nathan Drake – qui obit 1752
1753 Thomas Sympson – qui obit 1786
1792 George Jepso
1797 William Gray
1826 S. Martin
1829 Richard Garvey, Snr
1862 Henry Woollaston Hutton
1876 William Barber Lightfoot
1878 Peter Llewellyn
1879 George Tyson Harvey
1894 William Neville Usher
1901 Henry Leigh Bennett
1904 Arthur Roland Maddison
1907 Cecil Edward Bolam
1926 Charles Harold Scott
1940 Euclid Curry Butterworth
1945 Cyril Theodore Henry Dams
1952 Hugh Frank Riches
1967 David Nigel Griffiths
1973 Victor Read
[Priest-in-Charge: St Mary Magdalene w. St Paul-in-the-Bail]
1973 John Benson Bayley
[Priest-in-Charge 1973-75]
1975 The Benefice of The Lincoln Minster Group is created [Rector: Lincoln Minster Group 1975]
2003 Edward Michael Crispin Bowes-Smith [Priest-in-Charge: Lincoln Minster Group]
2012 The Benefice of The Lincoln Minster Group is dissolved
VICAR
2014 Matthew Alexander Whitehead
2018 Adrian Paul Smith
2021 Hugh William Fawcett Jones [Priest-in-Charge]