St John, Jersey

Historical Description

John, St, a parish in Jersey, on the N coast, 5½ miles NNW of St Holier. Post town, St Helier's. Acreage, 2154; population, 1673. Bonne Nuit Bay, about a mile ENE of the church, opens from a beautiful small glen, and gives shelter to a few fishing boats. Mount Mado Quarries, W of the bay, have long been extensively worked, and furnish an excellent granitic stone for harbour piers and for building. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £103. Patron, the Crown.