Rivington Parish Church
List of Ministers

1270 Roger the clerk
1278 Roger the clerk
1285 William the clerk
1316 Hugh the clerk
1336 Richard the clerk
1345 Adam de Byrkeheved the clerk
1521 John Warying
1536 Three acres of enclosed land to the use of a priest at Rivington Chapel
1541 Rev. William Bradley's name appears in the list of Bolton clergy and is provided for by Richard Pilkington of Rivington.
1548 William Bradsher
1554 William Brodhurst ( could these two be corruptions of William Bradley?)
1563 Henricus Croston ( was not instituted )
1597 Thomas Hyndley Usher at the School from 1587 to 1615, so could have held both positions during that time.
1615 Francis Banks
1618 Robert Worthington
1633 Edmund Shaw
1640 Robert Dewhurst
1646 Thomas Blackburn
1647 John Walker ( not instituted )
1649 Ralph Nuttall
1654 Thomas Abbott
1657 Samuel Newton ( Ejected 1662 for refusing to conform )
1662 Thomas Blackburn re-elected
1665 John Breres, brother of Thomas Breres of Rivington Hall acted as minister.
1672 Samuel Newton returned after the Toleration Act of that year.
1682 John Walker
1686 John Battersby ( left in 1695 )
1699 Joshua Dixon
1716 Andrew Gray
1728 John Waddington
1755 William Welsh
1763 John Fisher
1813 William Heaton
1823 James Jackson
1856 Thomas Sutcliffe ( first Vicar )
1879 William Ritson
1918 H. E. Lovelady
1932 Thomas Davies
1939 George Eustace Owen
1959 Norman William Peet
1967 Edward Redhead ( last Vicar )
1972 Jack Jermy ( Curate in charge )
1995 Denis Gatenby, Team Rector ( Rivington became part of the Horwich Team)