Rectors and Patrons of St Michael’s Church
From ‘St Michael’s Church, Longstanton’ by H A E Stroude & J A Lane – 2007 (CRO / LDHS archives)
An earlier version of St Michael’s church was noted as existing in 1217, before the building that one sees today was erected in about 1230.
Only the dates when the rector was definitely proven to be in post in the current church are shown.
| Dates | Rector | Patron |
| 1238 | Herbert | |
| 1254 | R de Chuato | |
| 1260 | Robert | Philip de Stanton |
| 1274 | Roger de Santo Albano | King Edward 1 (as guardian of Nicholas Cheyney) |
| 1274 – 1305 | John of Scarborough | Queen Eleanor of Provence |
| 1305 | Roger de Mantuo Mari | Philip de Colville |
| 1309 | John Walham | |
| 1312 | Peter | |
| 1332 | Walter | |
| 1335 | Peter Le Vavasour | |
| 1349 | Nicholas West of Tadelowe | Feoffees: Robert de Musters & Henry Alvene |
| 1352 | John Gilbert | Feoffees: Thomas de Eltisle, Gilbert Everard & Robert Clerk |
| Before & 1357 | Thomas de Elteslee (alias Banastre de Elteslee) |
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| 1357 – 1360 | Thomas de Elteslee | |
| 1372 – 1396 | Thomas Merleberwe (de Marlebergh) |
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| 1396 – 1402 | John Canon | Feoffees: … de Roos, Thirayayg(?) & Tyndale |
| 1402 – 1405 | Robert Ware | John Cheyney |
| 1405 | Will Smyth | Bishop of Ely (presented by lapse) |
| ?? | Stephen Wylton (Wilton) | |
| 1427 | Henry Grove/Crowe | |
| 1432 – 1435 | John Cheyney | John Burgoyne |
| 1466 | James Sodelombe | Thomas Burgoyne |
| 1466 – 1472 | Nicholas Silvester | Thomas Burgoyne |
| 1472 – 1474 | Henry Mayneld | Sir John Cheyne |
| 1474 | John Garthwait | Sir John Cheyne |
| 1503 – 1506 | William Elmesley | |
| 1506 – 1515 | Will Bowes | Thomas Burgoyne |
| 1515 – 1526 | Geoffrey Quarton | Elizabeth Burgoyne |
| 1526 – 1547 | John Crosby(e) | Elizabeth Burgoyne |
| 1547 – 1555 | Thomas Helperby | Christopher Burgoyne |
| 1555 – 1556 | George Marshall | Thomas Burgoyne |
| 1557 – 1560 | William May | |
| 1560 – 1572 | John May | |
| 1572 – 1595 | Will Howgrave | Thomas Byng (by concession) |
| 1595 | Will Knight | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1599 – 1603 | Cuthbert Curwin | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1603 – 1612 | John Morden | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1612 – 1626 | Henry Gooch | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1631 – 1662 | John Gooche | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1662 – 1673 | Henry Grey | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1673 | Rowland Manlove | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1719 – 1764 | Theodore Waterland | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1764 – 1779 | Edward Blakeway | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1779 – 1781 | Edmund Smith | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1781 – 1782 | William Heath | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1782 – 1819 | James Atkins | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1819 – 1823 | William Cornforth | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1823 – 1882 | William Cecil | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1882 – 1887 | Frederick Gunton | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1887 – 1892 | James Douglas Harington | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1892 – 1923 | Alfred Peskett | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1923 – 1929 | Horace Bernard Woolley | Bishop of Ely |
| 1929 – 1936 | Cyril Bond | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1936 – 1944 | John Goodchild | Bishop of Ely |
| 1944 – 1957 | Geofrey Russell Ellaby | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1957 – 1969 | Donald Arthur Youngman | Bishop of Ely |
| 1969 – 1973 | Canon Roger Cokayne Frith | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1973 | St Michael’s church was declared redundant | |
