Faith

For centuries it has been the centre-point of St Peter Port seeing more renovations and extensions than most buildings.

At the centre of local community life for many years the Town Church is part of St Peter Port's unique character.

Memorials in the Town Church

Gillian Lenfestey explained that there was documentary evidence for the church being on the site in 1048 and she has a theory that a structure may have been on the site since 500 AD as part of a Roman fortified settlement.

Inside the church walls are lined with memorials and plaques to islanders and light pours in through the stained-glass windows.

The second set of documents referring to the church are from 1294 when the church burnt down. The only section to survive is part of the wall along the south aisle.

The pulpit in Town Church

The stone pulpit is one of the areas that has gone through a lot of changes especially during the reformation.

One feature of the church is the tronc or poor box built into one of the pillars. It is now called donations but before the time of social security the church wardens used the money to help the poor. There was another poor box outside in the east wall so people did not have to come into the church to donate.