Listed building or place reference: MN0149 Historic site reference Property Rosel Manor Road name La Grande Route de Rozel Parish St. Martin LocationView on map Grade Listed Building Grade 1 Category Residential (rural house) Statement of significance aAn outstanding and renowned major manor house and garden, surrounded by the largest landscape park in Jersey. The site is of medieval origins and includes an 11th / 12th century chapel. 18th century house with early 19th century remodelling. Associated with the fief of Rosel. Context n/a External Description The oldest structure on the site is the manorial chapel, dedicated to St Anne, and extraordinarily large for a Jersey fief. This simple building of granite rubble is in the Romanesque style of the 11th or 12th century, although it was thoroughly restored in the 1840s after centuries of disuse. On plan it is a long narrow rectangle, very tall in proportion to its breadth, with shallow buttresses, round-headed slit windows and the remains of a corbel-table under the eaves on the northern and southern sides. The east and west elevations are treated differently: the former with two slit windows and a tiny roundel above, the latter with a much larger window set off-centre above a recessed round-headed doorway of four orders, the latter probably of the 1840s. The interior of the chapel is plastered and whitewashed. There is a slightly pointed tunnel vault with transverse arches separating the bays. The windows are set in deep splayed reveals. Several contain 19th and 20th century stained glass - some geometrical, some figurative, the latter including the fine west window showing scenes from the life of Christ. Rozel Manor has connections with the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, one of whose early patrons was a mid-19th century seigneur of Rosel. The window immediately to the right of the altar is said to have been designed by Millais. The furnishings probably belong to the 1840s restoration. They comprise: oak benches in the nave, the ends set with miniature buttresses and round-arched panels; choir stalls with simple poppy-heads, on each side a panel with the Lemprière crest carved in relief; an eagle lectern in oak; altar rails with interlocking Romanesque arches; and the main altar, its front incorporating re-used 16th or 17th century panels with crudely-carved figures of saints in high relief. The sanctuary area has patterned encaustic tiles. The manor house originally stood just north of the chapel, on the site of what is now the farm and stable complex. The seven-stone Jersey arch that forms the main entrance to the farmyard is probably a remnant of this building, as may be other parts of this range. The circular colombier also belongs to the old manorial complex, although it has seen much alteration including an inserted floor and the filling-in of all the interior dove-holes (volières à pigeons). The old house was demolished c.1770 and rebuilt on the present site on top of St Marguerite's Hill. The core of the existing house dates from this rebuilding, but its present appearance is due to a radical remodelling of c.1820 in the fashionable 'castellated' style: the exterior was rendered in Roman cement, and the various medievalising features - towers, tourelles, crenellations, pinnacles, tall octagonal chimneys, hood-moulds and arrow-slits - were added using the same material. The granite walls stretching out from the entrance front, battlemented and ending in circular mock-bastions, must also date from this period. The house was altered again in the 1890s: the roof-pitch was altered and dormers and roof-lights added, along with a large Italianate oriel window in the centre of the garden front. The panelled dining room also belongs to this phase. The house was requisitioned during the Second World War by German troops, who dug three personnel shelters in the grounds. The principal building is 2-storey with a front of 7-bays, rendered with unpainted Roman cement. The house has eclectic elevations with embattled parapet and distinctive corner turrets and towers. There are two large corner towers on the south (garden elevation) and two decorative narrow turrets on the front corners. The south east corner tower is of octagonal plan resting on a wider square, arched base. There are narrow, lanceted windows on 2 levels of it. The south west tower is 1 bay wide and square plan. There are blank windows formed in plaster on the sides of the tower as well as on the main house side elevations. There is a spiral staircase turret on the west elevation beside the corner tower. The gable above the central bay of the front elevation is flanked with pinnacled buttresses above a 1 storey square porch. The porch is in medieval style with embattlements and hood mould above the Tudor arch doorway, and a stone arms crest above the entry. The central bay of the rear elevation is flanked by buttresses with a late 19th century 1st floor round head window bay above the patio doors. There is a single-storey flat roof element along the east elevation with Tudor arched arcades with softwood painted patio doors with pointed arch pattern. The single and 2-storey parts to the west of the house were originally the servicing wing. There are original softwood painted sash windows with hood moulds. The double pile mansard has flat roof dormers and clay tiles. The outbuildings include the chapel and colombier referred to above and also former kitchens, stables and a cart port building. These outbuildings are of granite rubble or brick with pantile roofs forming a courtyard with the later stone car port in the centre. The landscape park and renowned garden, including an extensive plant collection, for a major manor house. The rural site occupies a plateau in the north-eastern corner of the island, with a valley which descends to the south. The site is enclosed to the west and north-west by the Grande Route de Rozel and to the north by La Rue des Pelles. The roadside boundary is marked by granite rubble walls. To the east and south the site is bounded by agricultural land. There are two entrances. The Lower Lodge stands at the south-west entrance off La Grande Route de Rozel and serves the west drive. The North Lodge stands north-west of the house and serves the north drive. The north drive runs through a belt of trees to the house which stands towards the centre of the site with gardens surrounding it. Mature parkland surrounds the house to the west, north and east with large woodland and gardens running south down the valley with 2 ponds. The garden has been described in detail a number of times. It is divided into three parts - the Chapel garden upper pond, the Palm garden and the lower pond and wild garden. From as early as the C15 Rosel Manor has been extolled as a fine garden. It now extends to 5 acres surrounded by extensive and well planted parkland. A major phase of work was been carried out by Brig. Raoul Lempriere-Robin and his wife Sheelagh since 1964, when many of the large camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons were already established. Jenner has a good description. Internal Description The interiors have many unaltered 18th and 19th century details including fireplaces, door architraves, flooring and timber panelling. There are outstanding examples of craft details such as hand-painted wallpapers from Japan, painted ceramic fire surrounds and 19th century timber panelling. Of particular note is the crested carved fireplace surround in the gentlemen's smoking room, and the drawing room fireplace surround in large ceramic panels with oriental motifs. Of particular note in the service area is an original stone floor and recently restored dome-like ceilings with ribs. Special interest Archaeological,Architectural,Historical For the best experience, you will need to use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browser to view the map Back to detail page Back to search results Documents Terms and conditions for downloading documents The plans, drawings and material provided have been submitted to the Chief Officer for permissions in respect of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002. 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