Early modern

• 1542–1551 William Snow (previously last prior of Bradenstoke)
• 1551–1552 John Whiteheare
• 1552–1554 George Carew (deprived)
• 1554–1559 Henry Joliffe (deprived)
• 1559–1580 George Carew (restored)
• 1580–1590 John Sprint
• 1590–1598 Anthony Watson
• 1598–1617 Simon Robson
• 1617–1639 Edward Chetwynd
• 1639–1660 Matthew Nicholas (afterwards Dean of St Paul's, 1660)
• 1660–1667 Henry Glemham
• 1667–1683 Richard Towgood
• 1683–1684 Samuel Crossman
• 1684–1685 Richard Thompson
• 1685–1694 William Levett
• 1694–1708 George Royse
• 1708–1730 Robert Booth
• 1730–1739 Samuel Creswick (afterwards Dean of Wells)
• 1739–1757 Thomas Chamberlayne
• 1757–1760 William Warburton
• 1760–1761 Samuel Squire (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1761)
• 1761–1763 Francis Ayscough
• 1763–1780 Cutts Barton
• 1763–1799 John Hallam

Late modern

• 1800–1803 Charles Layard
• 1803–1810 Bowyer Sparke
• 1810–1813 John Parsons
• 1813–1837 Henry Beeke
• May–October 1837 Thomas Musgrave
• 1837–1850 John Lamb
• 1850–1891 Gilbert Elliot
• 1891–1916 Francis Pigou
• 1916–1921 Basil Wynne Willson (afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1926)
• 1922–1926 Edward Burroughs (afterwards Bishop of Ripon, 1926)
• 1926–1933 Henry de Candole
• 1934–1951 Harry Blackburne
• c. 1951–1957 Evered Lunt (afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Stepney, 1957)
• 1957–1972 Douglas Harrison
• 1973–1987 Horace Dammers
• 1987–1997 Wesley Carr (afterwards Dean of Westminster, 1997)
• 1997–2009 Robert Grimley
• 2009–2010 Andrew Tremlett; acting dean
• 2010–2019 David Hoyle
• 2019-2020 Michael Johnson; acting dean ^[2]
• 3 October 2020 – present Mandy Ford ^{[3] [1]}