Laurens or St Laurence, Jersey

Historical Description

Laurens or Laurence, St, a parish in Jersey, N of St Aubin Bay, and 2½ miles NW of St Helier. It contains the village of Millbrook, and is traversed by the Millbrook rivulet. Post town, Jersey. Population, 2440. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; gross value,, £140 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is a plain edifice, with a bell-tower rising from the centre, but has more interior ornament than any other of the Jersey churches out of St Helier. It was completely restored in 1892. The chapelry of St Matthew Millbrook, in this parish, is a separate benefice, and the living of it is a perpetual curacy, of the net value of, £150, in the patronage of the Rector of St Laurence.