Samarès Manor (
Jèrriais
(french: Jersiais, also known as the Jersey Language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island ...
: ''Mangni d'Sanmathès'') is a
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with ...
with medieval origins in the
Vingtaine de Samarès
Vingtaine de Samarès is one of the three vingtaines of the Parish of St. Clement in Jersey, Channel Islands.
It takes its name from the salt marsh that used to occupy much of the area of this low-lying coastal vingtaine.
Samarès used to be s ...
, in the parish of
St. Clement in
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...
, and is the traditional home of the
Seigneur de Samarès
''Seigneur'' is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a ''seigneurie'' (o ...
. 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 gardens are open to the public from April until October.
History
The oldest part of the house is the
undercroft
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open ...
thought to be a
crypt
A crypt (from Latin '' crypta'' " vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.
Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a ...
dedicated to
Saint Martha, dating from the 11th or 12th century. Today, the west-wing of the manor house is above the undercroft. The original building, possibly a chapel, which once stood above the crypt is no longer present.
The manor house is a H-plan building with a number of
Tudor arched windows on the ground floor.
The round
colombier is believed to be the oldest in Jersey and may date to as early as the 12th century.
The present gardens were first created in the 1920s by
Sir James Knott
Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet (31 January 1855 – 8 June 1934) was a shipping magnate and Conservative Party politician in northeast England.
Family
In 1878 Knott married Margaret Garbutt. They had three sons: Thomas Garbutt Knott, James Lead ...
who bought the manor in 1924.
This substantial work included re-claiming the salt marsh area near the manor.
On the 12 June 2009, the manor's grounds were used by the
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as a location for filming an episode of
Antiques Roadshow
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.
Farm
Samarès Manor farm lies directly to east of the manor house. Many of the buildings are now used as self-catering accommodation.
See also
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Saint Ouen's Manor
References
External links
Samarès Manor
Tourist attractions in Jersey
Manor houses in Jersey
Buildings and structures in Saint Clement, Jersey
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