Rectors of Steeple
Ralph Blatchesdon (1318 – 1324)
Thomas de Meroston (1324 – 1325)
Robert Miche (1325 – ?)
Galfrid Courtois (? – 1361)
John Hullard (1361 – ?)
William Pregest (1381 – 1383)
John Marnham (1383 – 1413)
John Botham (1413 – 1414)
Robert Osanne (1414)
William Talbot (1414)
Robert Leycest (1414 – 1421)
Robert Lyn,or Hen,dringham (1421 – 1456)
Robert Dunley (1456 – ?)
William Brown (? – 1464)
Matthew ap David ap Vaughan (1464 – 1468)
William Jonys (1468 – 1485)
Richard Toppe (1485 – 1489)
Nicholas Ingleshent (1489 – ?)
Roger Lightfote (? – 1511)
Richard Williamson (1511 – ?)
George Marshe (1546 – 1568)
Edward James ( 1569 – 1600)
William Betterley (1600 – 1637)
John Churchill (1637 – 1682)
Samuel Bold (1682 – 1722)
Steeple cum Tyneham
Samuel Bold (1722 – 1737)
Christopher Twyniho (1737 – 1742)
Denis Bond (1742 – 1795)
William Bond (1795 – 1852)
Nathaniel Bond (1852 – 1889)
Christopher Wordsworth (1889 – 1897)
Claude Samuel Homan (1897 – 1913)
Edward Clifford Hawkes (1914 – 1916)
Thomas Openshaw Coupe (1916 – 1923)
Frederick de la Poer Beresford Corfield (1923 – 1927) [last resident Rector in Steeple Rectory]
Christopher Campbell Sharpe (1927 – 1932)
Edwin George Clifford Frend (1932 – 1937)
Humphrey Churchill Money (1937 – 1950)
Vacant (1950 – 1953)
Steeple cum Tyneham combined with Church Knowle
John Lewis Jenkins (1953 – 1959)
John Pringle (1959 – 1965)
David Douglas Lloyd Evans (1966 – 1975)
John Henson (1975 – 1979)
Gerald Stephen Miles Squarey (1979 – 1985)
Steeple cum Tyneham & Church Knowle combined with Corfe Castle & Kimmeridge
Gerald Stephen Miles Squarey (1985 – 1990)
Maurice Arthur Strike (1990 – ?)
Ian Jackson
Richard and Louise White (Current)
Men of Steeple who fell in the Great War 1914 – 1919
Laurence Fk Burt, 1/4 Dorset, (18)
Bernard Chilcott, 250th Siege by R.G.A. (31)
George Gilbert Cooper, 1/4 Oxf. & Bucks L.I. (24)
Henry Charles Ford, 10th Canadians (28)
Frank Goiuld, 1st Dorset (41)
Stephen F. Lillington, 3rd Gren. Guards (19)
Coming soon.
Burials
In 2013 a survey was conducted of the church graveyard to record information which was legible on the headstones. That information is provided below.
The overview of the church yard is in the first diagram, then subsequent diagrams detail the graves in those sectors.
