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St Martin's Parish Church, Guernsey

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There was a Neolithic tomb on the site of the church to which La Gran'mère du Chimquière was possibly linked. This standing stone menhir, dating from 2500 – 1800BC is shaped into a female figure and has had the head recarved, into a more Roman style at a later date. She stands at the main gate and it
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The earliest reference to a religious building on the site was in 1048. The original building was built over, with the oldest parts of the current building dating back to 1225 with a second aisle added in the next century.
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The earliest part, the nave, tower and chancel, date from 1225 to 1250, with the northern aisle being added a century later. The porch was added around 1520 and has a sundial dated 1751.
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The font is the oldest in the island, dating from before the reformation. The pulpit dates from 1657 and the organ was installed in 1848.
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There are three bells weighing 448, 677 and 947 lbs which were recast by a French bell-founder, Jean Baptiste Brocard at Glategny in
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The clock was installed by Peter Le Page of St Peter Port in 1869, the bells were linked and the chiming apparatus installed.
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The church records, now held at the Priaulx Library, show baptisms and marriages from 1660 and burials from 1728.
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in France until in 1568 when the Channel Islands churches were finally transferred to the
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confiscated the revenues being sent to France. The Church remained part of the
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is traditional for new brides to place flowers on her head for luck.
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List of churches, chapels and meeting halls in the Channel Islands
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and is located in a dip in an ancient village, in the parish of
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The connection with Marmoutier Abbey continued until 1415 when
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In 2000 the church appeared on a Christmas stamp issued by
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Close by is a healing spring, la Fontaine de la Bellouse.
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granted St. Martin's as a Parish Church to the Abbot of
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Guernsey was Christianised in the sixth century AD.
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St Martin’s Parish Church, Guernsey
Saint Martin, Guernsey

St Martin's Parish Church, Guernsey is located in Channel Islands
49°26′17″N 2°33′16″W / 49.43806°N 2.55444°W / 49.43806; -2.55444
Channel Islands
Denomination
Church of England
www.stmartinschurch.gg
Province
Canterbury
Diocese
Salisbury
Archdeaconry
Deanery
Benefice
Parish
Rector
La Gran'mère du Chimquière

William, Duke of Normandy
Marmoutier, near Tours
King Henry V
Diocese of Coutances
Diocese of Winchester

Saint Peter Port
Guernsey Post
John Louis Petit
List of churches, chapels and meeting halls in the Channel Islands

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