St Saviour, Jersey


St Saviour is a parish of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is located directly east of St Helier. It has a population of 13,580. It has a land surface area of 3.6 square miles and has a very small coastline at Le Dicq.
The parish is quite urbanised, hosting the suburbs and exurbs for the town of St Helier. The most notable settlement is located around the Five Oaks area in the centre of the parish and Georgetown in the South. The village of Maufant is located on the boundary with St Martin.
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History

The parish's name derives from Jesus Christ as the Redeemer. The parish church's full dedication is to St Saviour of the Thorn.
The parish crest displays a thorn with three nails, to represent the Saviour's suffering.
Government House is the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor, the King's representative in Jersey. It was originally known as Belmont and was acquired in 1821. It was originally constructed in 1814.
The church and parish hall are located halfway along the road known as St Saviour's Hill. In the 19th century, the road was opened on its current route. Before then, the road ran through the current grounds of Government House. There was formerly an inn in what is now part of the cemetery of the church.

Governance

St Saviour is one of 12 parishes of the Bailiwick of Jersey, a self-governing British Crown dependency. The highest official in the parish is the Connétable of St Saviour. The incumbent office holder is Kevin Lewis, who has held the office since 2022. The parish administration is headquartered at the Parish Hall, next to the parish church.
Under the newly-revised electoral reform, St Saviour forms a single constituency and elects five representatives to the States Assembly, alongside a connétable. The current vingteniers and deputies for St Saviour are listed below:
DistrictVingteniers
La Vingtaine de la Petite LonguevilleJ Hatcher
La Vingtaine de Sous l'ÉgliseN Tanner
La Vingtaine de MaufantS Hardy
La Vingtaine de Sous la HougueA Goncalves
La Vingtaine des PigneauxD Hallam

Deputies
  • Philip Ozouf.
  • Raluca Kovacs
  • Malcolm Ferey
  • Louise Doublet
  • Thomas Binet

Geography

St Saviour is in the east of the island of Jersey. It borders Trinity, St Martin, Grouville, St Clement and St Helier. The south of the parish is a highly urbanised part of town, focused around Georgetown and Five Oaks. The area in the south is known as Georgetown, Plat Douet and Longueville. It is near Howard Davis Park and has a short piece of coastline, the only one in the parish. It is also home to the Rue des Près Trading Estate. The Five Oaks area is home to many schools and suburban housing for St Helier. The remainder of the parish is largely rural, save for a few small developments such as Maufant Village and the houses near Queen's Valley Reservoir. The Grands Vaux reservoir runs along the border of St Saviour and St Helier.
In terms of transport, the parish has many main roads that run through the parish to connect to other parishes, such as La Grande Route de St Martin and Longueville Road. Part of the St Helier Ring Road is located within St Saviour. The parish does not have any green lanes. The parish's Connétable Sadie Le Sueur-Rennard said 'I can't see where we would have a green lane', although the parish has a large number of lanes.
St Saviour is twinned with Villedieu-les-Poêles, Normandy.

Demography

St Saviour is Jersey's second most populated parish, with 13,580 residents in 2011.

Religious sites

The parish church is Saint-Sauveur de l'Epine and is dedicated to Jesus Christ. The parish church existed at least as early as 1087. Each originally had four separate chapels, dedicated to Jesus, St John, St Martin and Mary, mother of Jesus. Before 1145, connecting walls were built to create the parish church. The central tower was built in the 14th century. The parish rector is uniquely known as 'Rector and Vicar' or 'Perpetual Curate'. The church has four bells, the oldest dating to 1656, the other three dating to 1968. Within its precincts, when plague was raging in 1563, the Royal Court of Jersey found a refuge, by permission granted of Hugh Perrin, on whose fief the building stood. Extensive repairs took place on the church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the best known of the Jersey churches outside the island because of the link to Lillie Langtry, whose father was rector of the church. She is buried in the churchyard, which is the largest of any of the island's parish churches, owing to the generosity of the Connétable in 1844.
Elsewhere in the parish is the Anglican church of St Luke's near Howard Davis Park. It is one of only three in the island to celebrate in the tradition of High Church Anglicanism. Due to population growth after the Napoleonic Wars, a new ecclesiastical district was created for Havre des Pas, with the new church completed in 1851. In the park next to the church, there is a war cemetery dedicated to the servicemen who lost their lives off Guernsey in HMS Charybidis and HMS Limbourne.

Landmarks

Education

The parish is home to a very large number of schools. Many of the schools have an island-wide student body, and therefore during school pick-up and drop-off times the roads in the parish can become very congested.

Notable people