List of Rectors

List of Rectors and Priests-In-Charge
No.	Dates from-to	Name	Notes
1	c.1150-1178	Walter de Bidun	Chancellor to the King of Scotland and Bishop-elect of Dunkeld at his death in 1178. It is unlikely that he spent much time, if any, in the parish and the fact that his brother and nephew held the manor and advowson during his tenure may account for his incumbancy.
2	1231	Walter de Horton
3	1288	Nicolas de Beauvis
4	1292	Simon de Beauvis
5	1334	Thomas de Escrik	Deprived after failing to obtain Holy Orders
6	1334	Guy Wake
7	1347	William de Homeby
8	1350	William de Wakefield
9	1351	Roger de Taleworth
10	1352	Henry de Sauston
11	1357	John de Kent
12	1361	Roger Raynon de Wellesford
13	1363	Richard de Daventry
14	1369	John Pratt
15	1386	John de Midleton
16	1389	Robert Attewell de Upton
17	1406	Simon Chamberleyn
18	1410	Giles Beton
19	-	Robert
20	1431	John Cleypole
21	1442	Henry Bilock
22	1444	John Lychebarrow
23	1457	John Wattes
24	1458	Thomas Vincent
25	1463	Reginald Conwey	alias ap-David (alias due to patrons, the Greys, having considerable interest in Wales?)
26	1474	Thomas Throwland	alias Markham
27	1477	John de la Launde	alias Smythe
28	1485	William Croxton
29	1524	Roger Wylde
30	1526	William Plumptre
31	1531	Robert Curtes
32	1582	Anthony Heywood
33	1589	John Hocknell
34	1616	Robert Catlyn
35	1616	George Coldwell
36	1623	William Benyon
37	1625	Hannibal Potter	Resigned after only one year to become President of Trinity College, Oxford.
38	1626	Jeremiah Stevens	Also Patron of this Parish by virtue of holding the advowson of the living. He built the North wing of the old Rectory; quarrelled with his parishioners and many of them walked to London to petition for his dismissal. He was expelled in 1644 but reinstated in 1660. He was the literary coadjutor of Sir Henry Spelman.
39	1646-1658	Daniel Rogers (not in Holy Orders)	Intruded
40	1658-1660	Lemuel Franklin (not in Holy Orders)	Intruded. One of the founders of the Grammar School in Northampton and commemorated in Franklins' Gardens.
41	1665	Daniel Goldsmith
42	1667	Robert Stevens
43	1677-1680	Robert Walley
44	1680-1681	Samuel Collins
45	1681-1686	Thomas Singleton	Presented by his wife, Frances, the daughter of Jeremiah Stevens. The Singleton family sold the advowson to Thomas Rowney, seneschal of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1683.
46	1686-1716	William Paynter	Also Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
47	1716	Samuel Addams
48	1741	Robert Scott
49	1761	Charles Webber
50	1764	James Fortescue	A poet. Buried in the Sanctuary of the church.
51	1777	William Terry
52	1806	John Vye
53	1833	John Prideaux Lightfoot	Enlarged the Rectory, adding the wing which alone now survives. Was also Canon of Lincoln Cathedral and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
54	1854	William Woolcombe
55	1882	Charles Hammond
56	1887	August Miller
57	1896	George Kemp
58	1905	Edward Leverton
59	1912	Thomas Dodson
60	1931	William George Cruft
61	1942	Louis Harrie Corbet Hopkins
62	1964	Martin E. Young
63	1978	Donald Scholey
64	2007	Jenny Parkin
65 66	2025	Lakshmi Jeffereys Tracy Pegram