Clergy at St Peter’s
| Rectors | ||
| 1180 | Thomas | |
| 1235 | Rafe | |
| 1260 | Roger Agnello | |
| 1290 | William Waryn | |
| 1312 | John de Colne | |
| Thomas de Lavenham | ||
| Vicars | ||
| 1324 | Richard Adholt (sub.d) | Resigned 1331 |
| 1331 | John de Wolfe | Resigned 1336 |
| 1335 | William de Melton | |
| 1336 | John Gybon | |
| 1338 | Richard Adholt | |
| 1377 | John Newman | |
| 1392 | John Best | |
| 1426 | Walter Crombe | Resigned 1433 |
| 1433 | William Moyne | Resigned 1434 |
| 1434 | John Gurdon | Resigned 1438 |
| 1438 | Adam Balsham | |
| John Wilkinson | ||
| 1479 | Richard Twycrosse | Died 1485 |
| 1485 | William Browne | Died 1494 |
| 1495 | Richard Caumond MA | Died 1535 |
| 1535 | Robert Bachcroft | Died 1537 |
| 1537 | Henry Beck | |
| 1555 | John Thorpe | Died 1565 |
| 1566 | Marcellinus Outred | |
| 1569 | Oliver Pigge | |
| 1570 | Edward Gutter MA | |
| 1579 | Robert Lewes MA | Deprived after 1584 |
| 1589 | Thomas Taverner MA | Resigned 1590 |
| 1590 | Edward Gutter | Died 1593 |
| 1593 | William Cole BA | Resigned 1600 |
| 1600 | Stephen Newcomen MA | Died 1629 |
| 1630 | Richard Maden STB | Resigned 1632 |
| 1632 | Robert Mercer MA | |
| 1654 | Edward Warren MA | Ejected 1662, died 1690 |
| 1662 | Edmund Hickeringill MA | Signs parish register as Vicar Aug 28, 1662 but instituted to All Saints, 21 Oct 1662. |
| 1663 | John Nettles | Died 1672 |
| 1673 | Thomas Thompson MA | Died 1682 |
| 1683 | John Edwards STB | |
| 1686 | Robert Dickman MA | Sequestrator, 1686 to 1698 |
| 1698 | Benjamin Smyth | Died 1714 |
| 1714 | Robert Turner MA | Resigned 1738 |
| 1738 | Staunton Degge MA | Resigned 1739 |
| 1739 | Thomas Halley MA | Died 1759 |
| 1760 | William Smythies MA | Died 5 November 1780 |
| 1781 | Robert Storry | Died 18th January 1814 |
| 1814 | William Marsh DD | Resigned 1829, died 24th August 1864 |
| 1829 | Samuel Carr MA | Died 17th June 1854 |
| 1854 | Henry Caddell MA | Died 15th March 1893 |
| 1893 | James Marshall Laycock MA | Instituted 17th May 1893 |
| 1895 | Charles Triffit Ward MA | Hon Canon of Chelmsford |
| 1922 | Charles Edward Cardo BA | |
| 1932 | Reginald Brackstone Bertin | |
| 1941 | Edward Harry Shaw | |
| 1948 | Thomas Henry Hollingdale AKC | |
| 1959 | Wilfrid Herbert Parsons ALCD, Hon CF | |
| 1970 | Robert Malcolm Wilson MA, ALCD | Hon Canon of Chelmsford. Resigned and retired 2001 |
| 2001 | Fred Woods | Resigned and retired 2011 |
| 2011 | Vacancy | |
| 2012 | Mark Wallace | |
In addition to the incumbents, there have been a number of curates at St Peter’s church over the years. These have included (dates of licence) John Harington, 1823; John Sandys, 1826; John Toll Burt, 1829; Justus Theophilus Timothy, 1871; Carter William Dakin Moore, 1875; Joseph Cornelius Hill, 1885; Thomas Charles Westmorland, 1888; Edward Miller, 1894; E.J. Goodchild, (to 1915); S. J. A. Dean (temporary), 1915; Herbert Hughes, 1915. This list is not complete.