| 1150 John, son of Thomas | 1180 Geoffrey |
| 1210 William, son of Geoffrey of Henham | 1221 Thomas |
| The Church was appropriated by Dunmow Priory circa 1230 and a vicarage ordained |
| Vicars at St Mary's Church |
| 1230 - ? | Thomas a gap here | 1653 - ? | Samuel Southern |
| 1293 - ? | William Rowald de Wytlewode | 1654 - ? | Samuel Malbone |
| 1325 - ? | William de Rangton | 1656 - 1662 | Samuel Ely |
| 1358 - ? | Philip | 1662 - 1675 | John Rouse |
| 1368 - ? | Nicholas | 1675 - ? | Christopher Wragge |
| ? | probably a gap here Robert Bayli | 1685 - 1737 | Samuel Smith |
| 1404 - 1424 | John Spenser de Bury | 1738 - 1776 | Edward Wise |
| 1424 - ? | John Snoryng | 1776 - 1779 | Wasey Sterry |
| 1437 - ? | William Wodhale | 1779 - 1796 | William Campbell |
| 1437 - 1439 | Walter Hamme | 1796 - ? | Francis Tutte |
| 1439 - 1443 | John Browne | 1824 - 1847 | George Henry Glyn |
| 1443 - 1454 | John Elwyn | 1847 - 1853 | Bradford Denne Hawkins |
| 1454 - 1457 | John Palmer | 1853 - 1890 | Arthur Horatio Belman |
| 1457 - 1464 | Robert Willy - The following information has been extracted from 'Newcourt's Repertorium', on the assumption that the Robert Wylly who served as Rector of St Mary's, Colchester resigned from that benefice rather than vacating it through death, and is the same Robert Wylly who served as Rector of Thorley. Robert Wylly was instituted as Vicar of St Mary's, Henham in Essex in December 1464. The following month, on 2 January 1465, he was collated to the Rectory of St Mary's, Colchester. He resigned from Henham at that time or shortly afterwards, and definitely before 3 April of that year when he was succeeded as Vicar there by Thomas Belson. | 1891 - 1896 | John Thurlow |
| 1464 - 1465 | Thomas Belson | 1896 - 1907 | Joseph Monk |
| 1465 - 1466 | Robert Draper | 1907 - 1933 | William Ival Williams |
| 1466 - 1467 | John Smart | 1933 - 1935 | Harry Howard Waddington |
| 1467 - 1496 | William Barret | 1935 - 1936 | Sidney Herbert Collins |
| 1496 - 1499 | Thomas Broun | 1936 - 1943 | William Ormrod |
| 1499 - 1514 | Robert Nevile | 1943 - 1947 | Jonathan Edward Cowley |
| 1514 - 1531 | Richard Dade | 1947 - 1957 | Edward Harry Shaw |
| 1531 - 1532 | Robert Shether | 1958 - ? | Alfred Stretton |
| 1532 - 1562 | Jacob Lambe | 1959 - 1964 | John Bernard Taylor |
| 1562 - 1572 | Thomas White | 1964 - 1968 | John Catteral Salisbury |
| 1572 - ? | John White | 1969 - 1989 | Brian Robert Green |
| 1575 - 1609 | Josias Fenning | 1990 - 2010 | Richard William Farr |
| 1609 - 1644 | Simon Snell | 2010 - date | Gary Townsend |
| 1644 - 1651 | Adriel Baynard | | |
