The Vale Church, Guernsey, Parish church in Vale, Guernsey.

The Vale Church is a stone structure in northern Guernsey with architectural features spanning multiple periods. The building displays characteristics from different building phases that reflect its extended use over centuries.

The present church was dedicated in 1117, built alongside a priory of Mont Saint-Michel founded around 968. A 7th- or 8th-century Christian monument unearthed outside the west door in 1949 now rests against the baptistry wall. The priory fell into disuse about 1414, its timbers used to repair Castle Cornet.

Services were partly held in French until the 1920s, a reminder of Guernsey's Norman ties. The church is dedicated to St Michel du Valle, and the parish's former priory court, with its seneschal and eleven vavasseurs, ranked second only to Guernsey's Royal Court until its jurisdiction ended in 1862.

Before 1806 the church could be reached by boat at high tide, as the Braye du Valle was navigable for small craft; the surrounding land was reclaimed afterwards. The building sits low in the north of the island and is visible from many points there, serving as a landmark for seafarers. Approach on foot along the roadside; the monastic buttressed wall stands south of the church by the road.

The chancel's main axis is deliberately out of line with the nave's, and no wall is parallel to another; this deviation is traditionally explained as a reference to the tortured body of Christ. On the granite arch above the pulpit a spaniel's head is carved, likely a mason's mark matching one at the Town Church.