of a Church, before parishioners were thought of, nothing but birds for its congregation, or like a hermit's oratory (the hermit dead), or a mausoleum, its effects singularly impressive, like a Church found in a deserted isle to startle Crusoe with a home image you must make out a vicar and a congregation from fancy, for none surely will come there, yet it wants not its pulpit, and its font, and all seemly additaments of our worship."
In Dawson's Work on " Hastings Castle," full particulars are given of Hollington Prebend, Parish, and Church. " The Manor of Hollington (also called Holinton, Holington, and Honintun "), lies wholly in the Parish of Hollington, and is mentioned in Domesday Survey. In Henry VIII's Valuation, the Priory at Hastings had rents in Hollington amounting to £2 0s. 6d. It was granted to Sir Anthony Brown, of Battle Abbey. In 1648 the property in
the Parish of Hollington, probably including St. Margaret's and St. Leonards, Hastings, was valued at £461 15s. The Manor afterwards passed into the hands of the Pounde family. In 15 Geo. III., it is vested in John Pelham, Esq., at whose death, April 7th, 1786, it passed to his only brother and heir, Henry Pelham, Esq. In 1789 its patron was Sir Charles Eversfield, Bart. The living of Hollington was gazetted a rectory on July 12th, 1867, and a rectory house was built on the glebe, during the incumbency of the Rev. F. Whistler. Horsfield's account of the Church states the building to be small, calculated to accommodate about 150 persons It consists of a chancel, nave, and tower, the latter of which is low -
