We are collecting information on the former ministers of this church. Please contact us if you can shed light on the ministries mentioned below or have a photograph that we can publish.

A Powell Davis: Entered the Methodist ministry in 1925. No longer in the ministry in 1928. 

Leslie Newman: Entered the ministry in 1927. Superintendent of the Dome Mission in Brighton from 1953-67. Distinguished Methodist preacher. Died in 1967 (?).

William Chamings: Entered the ministry in 1880. As a supernumerary, assigned to Warley barracks in 1928 as chaplain to the Essex Regiment, with responsibility for Billericay church in 1930. Died in 1932.

Rodney McNeal: Entered the ministry in 1928. Died in 1965 (?).

Garth Flemington: Entered the ministry in 1931 and Ilford Circuit (including Billericay) was his first appointment. Most of his ministry spent in the south of England. Died in 1968.

Vincent Knowles: Entered the ministry in 1927. Died in 1968 (?).

George Chesters: Born in Liverpool in 1871. Entered the ministry in 1896 and was active for 41 years, then as a supernumerary served as Warley barracks chaplain and Billericay minister from 1937-1942. Died in 1949.

Wilmot Carvosso Carlyon: Born in 1878. Entered the ministry in 1904. In 1942, as an active supernumerary, assumed responsibility for Brentwood and Billericay churches, Warley barracks and RAF Hornchurch. Died in 1957.

John Hurd Barley: Entered the ministry in 1947. His appointment to the new Romford circuit was his first and he was the first minister to be resident here. Died sometime after 1967.

James Temple: Entered the ministry in 1945.

Normal Earl: Entered the ministry in 1941.

Bernard Holland: Entered the ministry in 1957. His Romford circuit appointment (here) was his second.

David Dunn Wilson: Entered the ministry in 1955. Retired and living in Eastbourne.

Trevor Allen: Entered the ministry in 1961. Retired and living in Kent.

Derek Poole: Entered the ministry in 1964. Spent much of his active ministry in Central America. Now retired and living in Eire.

Keith Lemar: Information wanted.

John Buxton: Entered the ministry in 1960. Served as Billericay minister in 1994-5 whilst circuit superintendent and based at Basildon. Retired and lives in Harlow.

Neil Trainer: Born in 1954 and died whilst in service at Billericay in 1998. Appointments in Sierra Leone.

Kathleen Allen: Wife of the Rev Tom Allen, whose appointments were in Boston, Doncaster, Folkestone, Bromley and Bishops Stortford. Entered the ministry after his death in 1991 and Billericay was her first appointment. Later moved to Brighton & Hove as circuit superintendent and retired to Essex in 2007.

Ian Carpenter: Information wanted.