Transcribed from a pair of framed document on the wall of the church (photo below).
A list of Rectors of Donhead St Mary with the Patrons | ||
| AD | Patron | Rector |
| 1293 | Abbess of Shasten | Walter Hervy |
| 1347 | John Wyvill | |
| 1363 | Rex pro. Abb. | John Barmeburg |
| 1383 | Richard Heath | |
| 1399 | Robert Brown | |
| 1438 | John Fowey | |
| 1446 | Stephen Morepath | |
| 1465 | Edmund Dyver | |
| 1502 | Xferus Twynbo | |
| 1509 | Thomas Chafyn | |
| 1545 | Thos. Arundell Miles | Thomas Norman |
| 1565 | Matthew Arundell | Nicholas Rogers |
| 1596 | George Pope | |
| 1646 | Peter Innes | |
| 1650 | Richard Osgood | |
| 1659 | Gul: Ash | Rice Adams |
| 1737 | Rice Adams | |
| 1747 | Geo: Pitt | Richard Jackson |
| 1796 | T. Grove | Gilbert Jackson |
| 1816 | William Blackmore | Richard Blackmore |
| 1847 | New College, Oxford | Richard White Blackmore |
| 1882 | Walter Francis Short | |
| 1901 | William Drake Saregeaunt | |
| 1935 | Richard Alan Courthope | |
| 1941 | Harold Dymond Peel | |
| 1959 | William Walter Lillie | |
| 1970 | John Cox | |
| 1977 | John Lee | |
United Benefice with Donhead St. Andrew | ||
| 1979 | New College, Oxford | Henry. M. Deane Hall ~ Priest in charge |
| 1982 | Dioc: Board of Patronage | Thomas Christopher Curry ~ Priest in charge |

The roughwood vital records have been accessed times.