List as Site of Special Interest: St. Matthew's Church, St. Lawrence.

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A decision made (26/09/2008) regarding: List as Site of Special Interest: St. Matthew's Church, Route de St. Aubin, St. Lawrence.

Decision Ref:	MD–PE–2008-0210
Subject:	List as a Site of Special Interest St Matthew’s Church, Route de St Aubin, St Lawrence
Decision Summary Title:	DS - List as a Site of Special Interest St Matthew’s Church, Route de St Aubin, St Lawrence
DS Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
DS Date:	16 September 2008	DS Status:	Public
Written Report Title:	WR – List as a Site of Special Interest St Matthew’s Church, Route de St Aubin, St Lawrence
WR Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
WR Date	16 September 2008	WR Status:	Public
Oral Rapporteur:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director/ Roger Hills – Head of Historic Buildings (Jersey Heritage)
Decision(s):	The Minister for Planning and Environment determined that St Matthew’s Church, Route de St Aubin, St Lawrence be added to the List of Sites of Special Interest
Reason(s) for Decision:	The special interest of St Matthew’s Church, Route de St Aubin, St Lawrence, as defined and in the schedule and relative to the published criteria for selection, justifies its inclusion on the List of Sites of Special Interest in accordance with the provisions and purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 and; it accords with the States Strategic Plan commitment of protecting and sympathetically managing the Island’s built heritage assets.
Legal and Resource Implications:	Article 51(2)(b) of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 enables the Minister to include on the List of Sites of Special Interest those buildings and places that the Minister is satisfied has public importance by reason of the special archaeological, architectural, artistic, historical, scientific or traditional interest that attached to the building or place.
Action required:	Notify the owner Update the List of Sites of Special Interest Notify Development Control
Signature:
Position:	Minister for Planning and Environment
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different to Date Signed):

List as Site of Special Interest: St. Matthew's Church, St. Lawrence.

PLANNING AND BUILDING (JERSEY) LAW 2002

SCHEDULE

St. Matthews Church, St. Lawrence

In amplification of the requirement of;

Article 51 Paragraph 3(a) to show in relation to each site included on the List which one or more of the special interests set out in paragraph (2) attaches to the site;
Article 51 Paragraph 3(b) to describe the site with sufficient particularity to enable it to be easily identified and;
Article 51 Paragraph 3(d) to specify any activity, referred to in Article 55 Paragraph (1), which may be undertaken on the site without the Minister’s permission;

the following supports the Minister for Planning and Environment’s view that the site known as St. Matthews Church, situated in La Route de St. Aubin in the Parish of St. Lawrence is of special interest.

i)	Special interest	Architectural, historical and artistic
ii)	Description: abbreviated	Church, 1840, extensively remodelled in 1934 by architect A B Grayson with glasswork by René Lalique.
	Description: expanded	St Matthew’s Church is one of the most interesting and significant twentieth century buildings in Jersey - representing a collaboration of the work of locally renowned modern movement architect, A B Grayson, and the world famous glass designer René Lalique. The main structure of the church dates to 1840 when St Matthew’s was built as a chapel of ease for the growing population in the Millbrook area. The church was extensively remodelled by Grayson in 1934 - the work commissioned by Florence Boot, Lady Trent, as a memorial to her late husband Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent of Nottingham (founder of the Boots Company). Grayson refashioned the exterior of the church in International Style with plain walls and the strong use of geometric shapes (a Granosite finish was applied to the walls in the 1960s). To the front of the church is a gateway with dressed granite pillars and geometric patterned metal gates. Grayson also remodelled the interior of the church using a variety of stonework - the floor paved with Portland stone, the walls faced with Bath stone and the floor in the Chancel of Dorset stone - with the pews, doors and other joinery of English oak, and the Lectern and Pulpit built of Hopton Wood stone from Derbyshire. The interior of the church is fitted and decorated throughout by exceptional glasswork designed and made by Lalique - St Matthew’s having the distinction as the only church where Lalique decorated throughout. The glasswork includes a great Cross flanked by two pillars behind the altar, a communion rail, screens and windows decorated with the Madonna lily and Jersey lily, and a chalice-shaped font. The reredos of the Lady Chapel is composed of four glass angels that recur as panels in the main doors. The church is lit by massive ceiling light troughs also of Lalique glass, and there are smaller glass lamps within the north porch.
	Description: additional references	Church information booklet - St Matthew’s Church, Millbrook, Jersey Boots M (1986) Architecture in Jersey La Haule Books Ltd
	Description: location	Plan attached
iii)	Activities referred to in Article 55(1) of the Law which may be undertaken without the Minister’s permission:	The carrying on of any of the following activities – to use or operate a device designed or adapted to detect or locate metal or minerals in the ground; to carry on an activity which might injure or deface the site or part of a site require the express prior consent of the Minister.