March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A modest church, originally a multi-purpose hall, built in a vernacular style with neo-Georgian details. The benefactors were Newman Gilbey and his wife. The most significant furnishing is the altar painting of the Nativity, an eighteenth-century copy of a painting by Rubens.
November 30th, 2020 | Uncategorised
A modest Gothic church built in 1868 by the Capuchin Friars, primarily to serve Catholic workers on the nearby canals. A Fatima grotto by F. R. Bates and Son was added in 1957. In 1864 Mgr. Thomas Joseph Brown OSB, Suffragan Bishop of Newport and Menevia, invited the Capuchin Friars from Pantasaph to take on […]
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
The principal Catholic church in Jersey, and one of the finest in the diocese. Built of Brittany granite in the French Gothic style of the thirteenth century, by a French architect for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The church is a major St Helier landmark and the lofty interior is vaulted throughout. The church was subjected to a major and destructive reordering after the Second Vatican Council, but retains glass and other furnishings of considerable interest. It has recently (2006-07) been the subject of an extensive and sympathetic renovation.
