Poling
| Poling | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 St. Nicholas' parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ046047 |
| Location: | 50°49’55"N, -0°30’58"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 174 |
| Post town: | Arundel |
| Postcode: | BN18 |
| Dialling code: | 01903 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Arun |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Arundel and South Downs |
Poling is a village in Sussex, a little in from the coast two miles south-east of Arundel on a minor road south of the A27. About a quarter of the parish is wooded foothill slopes of the South Downs.
The 2001 Census recorded 173 people lived in 75 households
Church
The parish church is St Nicholas, which is on the south-east edge of the village next to Manor Farm and is reached by a footpath from Poling Street, next to the Old Vicarage. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The church has two interesting memorials inside, to the Kent and MCC cricketer and cricket administrator Colin Cowdrey (1932–2000) and the explorer, botanist, artist and colonial administrator Sir Harry Johnston (1858–1927), who lived at St John's Priory. Johnston is commemorated by a wall plaque in the nave carved by the Arts and Crafts sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill, who lived at Ditchling, also in Sussex: the main typeface used on the plaque seems to be Gill's Perpetua, which he designed in 1925 but did not release until 1929. The lower-case typeface used for the Latin quote is not presently recognised.
Also in the parish is part of St John's Priory[2] (founded by the Knights Hospitallers around 1140) beside the main road.
History
From the Anglo-Saxon era, Poling, like most of the county's coastal villages, had outlying areas of land in the Weald to the north, used for summer grazing and timber production. Thus Poling gave its name to Pallingham north of Stopham and Pallinghurst west of Rudgwick. Poling also had land north of Petworth, then known as "Palinga Scittas", mentioned in a charter of AD 953. in connection with the pannage of pigs to feed on acorns.[3]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1275560: Church of St Nicholas (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1217172: St John's Priory (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Jerrome, 2002, page 15
- Jerrome, Peter (2002). Petworth. From the beginnings to 1660. The Window Press. p. 15.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Sussex, 1965 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09677-4
- Houses of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Poling: Victoria County History of Sussex