MALLING (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of
RINGMER, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 1 mile
(N.) from Lewes, containing 620 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £ 600 royal bounty, and £ 1700 parliamentary
grant. South Mailing constitutes the head of a
deanery, the whole of which is within the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The
church, dedicated to St. Michael, is described as collegiate
in Domesday-book, and is said to have been
founded by Ceadwalla, King of the West Saxons, who
died in 688; it is a small neat edifice, rebuilt on the
site of the former, and consecrated May 23rd, 1632.
The dean and prebendaries, who, in later times, were
under the immediate jurisdiction of the Archbishops
of Canterbury, had, at the dissolution, a revenue of
£45. 12. 5. The present mansion forms part, of the
ancient buildings of the deanery, but the refectory,
used as a barn, was pulled down many years ago. The
Archbishops of Canterbury had formerly a palace here;
the chapel has been converted into a cottage.