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The JE postcode area, also known as the Jersey postcode area, [2] ... Saint Clement: 7 Saint Saviour: JE3 1 Saint Lawrence: 2 Saint Ouen: 3 Saint Mary: 4 Saint John ...
St Clement has two primary schools and one secondary school within its borders. Le Rocquier School is a secondary school, on La Grande Route de St Clement. The original school buildings were replaced with a new building in 2006. [13] The parish school of St Clement is located on Rue de la Chapelle, a short distance from Le Rocquier School. The ...
The origins of the Jersey parishes is unknown, however it is certain that they are ancient institutions. It has been suggested that the five central parishes (St Saviour, St John, St Mary, St Peter and St Lawrence) date to around 475 AD. [5] The parish system is much more important in Jersey than in England or post-Napoleon France.
The Hermitage of Saint Helier. Although there are indications that missionary efforts created small places of Christian worship in various places in the islands before 450 A.D. [1]: 29 the first proper evidence of Christianity is recorded as coming to the Islands around 520 A.D. when Samson of Dol visited Guernsey and in 540 A.D. when Helier arrived in Jersey, living as a hermit until he was ...
Parishes of Jersey Vingtaines of Jersey. The island of Jersey is located in the Channel Islands and consists of a number of small towns, villages and uninhabited islands. Jersey is divided into twelve administrative parishes which are further subdivided into vingtaines, with Saint Ouen being the exception which uses cueillettes. [1]
The fortified Jersey Round Tower at Le Hocq, was built in the 1780s. [1] Alongside the tower is the Millennium Cross of St. Clement, one of twelve granite wayside crosses erected to mark the millennium in 2000-2001. The headland juts out onto the rocky [2] Le Hocq Beach (a part of St. Clement's Bay). King's Rock, Queen's Rock and Prince's Rock ...
Samarès Manor (Jèrriais: Mangni d'Sanmathès) is a manor house with medieval origins in the Vingtaine de Samarès, in the parish of St. Clement in Jersey, and is the traditional home of the Seigneur de Samarès. The name Samarès is an old French word meaning salt-marsh, and much of the low-lying surrounding areas are or were coastal marshes.
The Parish Church of St Clement is the parish church of the parish of Saint Clement in Jersey.It is one of the twelve "Ancient Parish Churches" of Jersey. In ancient Latin documents the church is referred to as Ecclesia Sancti Clemtentis de Petravilla in Gersuis which translates to "the Church of St. Clement on the estate of Peter in Jersey".