St Matthew's Church, Anglican church in Millbrook, Saint Lawrence, Jersey.
St Matthew's Church is a white-walled Anglican church with a grey pitched roof and a square tower at Millbrook, Saint Lawrence. A low porch on two brown stone pillars frames a wooden double door, and a low stone wall runs in front. Inside, René Lalique's 1934 glasswork fills the space: a four-metre glass cross flanked by two columns, a communion table of milk glass, and windows decorated with Madonna lilies and Jersey lilies.
St Matthew's was built in 1840 as a chapel of ease at the foot of Mont Felard, so parishioners could avoid climbing the hill to St Lawrence's Church. In 1934 Florence Boot, Lady Trent, widow of Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists, funded a renovation by architect A. B. Grayson and glass designer René Lalique. The church was listed as a Site of Special Interest on 26 September 2008.
The lily motif that fills the glass — Madonna lilies and Jersey lilies — runs through the windows, the cross and its flanking columns. The parish is in the Deanery of Jersey, and since 2022 the church has belonged to the Diocese of Salisbury rather than Winchester. The vicar as of 2010 was the Reverend Philip James Warren.
St Matthew's stands at the foot of Mont Felard in Millbrook, on the south coast road; the low stone wall in front borders the churchyard. The interior is entered through the wooden double door under the porch with its two brown stone pillars. The church is an active Anglican parish church, so visits fit around services; the 1970s porch extension is used separately for community work.
The baptismal font and its bowl are made entirely of glass, likely the only such ensemble in the world, and carry Lalique's only signature in the church. The four-metre glass cross can be lit from within. The second organ stands on a floor of shark skin.
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