According to the 2001 Census, Gissing had a population of 254 people living in 95 households,[3] by the 2011 Census this had fallen to 252 people living in 109 households.[4] Furthermore, the parish has a total area of 3.13 square miles (8.1 km2).
In 1209 there was a rectory; in 1271, a vicarage was endowed with "all the offerings, the tithes of the mills, a vicarage-house and meadow, and an acre of land adjoining, and twenty acres more of the church's free land, and all other small tithes, except hay, which, with all the corn tithes, and the rest of the glebe, together with the rectory manor, and all its appurtenances, were to belong to the prior himself."[6]
There are monuments to members of the Kemp family, including Sir Robert Kemp (d.1710) and both his wives. His memorial is by Edward Stanton. The monument to Sir John Kemp (d.1815) is by the London sculptor Charles Regnart.[7]
War memorial
Gissing's war memorial takes the form of a rough-hewn Celtic cross with a sword of sacrifice and is located just outside of St. Mary's Churchyard. The memorial lists the following names for the First World War: