Samarès Manor
| Samarès Manor | |
|---|---|
 The Manor House in 2011. | |
.svg?lang=en)  Location within Channel Islands | |
| General information | |
| Town or city | Parish of St. Clement |
| Country | Jersey |
| Construction started | 13th Century |
Samarès Manor is a manor house with medieval origins in the Vingtaine de Samarès, in the parish of St. Clement in Jersey, and is the traditional home of the Seigneur de Samarès. 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 oldest part of the house is the undercroft thought to be a crypt dedicated to Saint Martha, dating from the 11th or 12th century.[1] 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 present gardens were first created by Sir James Knott in the 1920s. This work included re-claiming the salt marsh area near the manor.
On the 12 June 2009, the manor's grounds were used by the BBC as a location for filming an episode of Antiques Roadshow.
See also
References
- ^ https://www.mygov.je//Planning/Pages/HistoricEnvironmentDetail.aspx?s=3&r=CL0085 Historic Document Reference : CL0085
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