Vicars of Turkdean 1289-2024

We have a record of Vicars and Rectors of Turkdean stretching back to Robert of Bourton’s appointment in 1289.

For many years (centuries!) the presentation to the living was held by the Honour of Wallingford and subsequently by the Honour of Ewelme, briefly, before transferring to Christ Church, Oxford after the Reformation.

The tradition of a resident priest in the village was broken in 1948 when the living was united with Farmington and then, instead, united with Cold Aston and Notgrove in 1965 after which the right to the presentation to the living was transferred to the Bishop and Turkdean was joined with seven other parishes in the Benefice of Northleach, where the Parish’s Priest-in-Charge is now based.