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Finally the flamboyant porch on the south side was added 

 and completed the church as we see it to-day. 



St. Martin's Church possesses several features of interest. 

 It has on the eastern jamb of the south door, the remains of a 

 stoup for the holy water, the only example we have in Guernsey. 

 It has been much defaced in its conversion to a Poor Box. 

 Incidentally the level of this stoup shows the alteration which 

 has taken place in the level of the church, and this amounts to 

 about a foot calculating the normal height of a stoup above the 

 floor. The alteration also necessitated the levelling up of the 

 floor of the Porch, which no doubt had two or more steps at the 

 door end to get down to the general level. The gain to the 

 churchgoer was certaintly immense, especially in the dark 

 winter evenings, before the era of gas and electric light ; but the 

 effect on the Porch was to change its proportions, for the worse 

 unfortunately. This same Porch has also been a victim else- 

 where to the utilitarian, who cut off the top of the pinnacle in 

 order to put a sundial on it. On the south wall of the chancel 

 is a plain Caen stone piscina. 



The windows, from a tablet at the west end of the north 

 aisle, appear to have been dealt with in the year 1760, the Revd. 

 Elie Crespin being Rector and also Dean of Guernsey. The 

 result of this work is apparent, especially on the south side 

 where the flat heads were replaced by round heads, no doubt 

 giving extra light to the interior, in the two windows nearest 

 the west end. The other windows, 3 in number, appear to be 

 original, and the whole of those in the north aisle are as built. 



Outside the church, against the west door, is a tombstone to 

 Samuel de la Place, the last but one of the Calvanist Ministers, 

 and the immediate predecessor of the Revd. J. Saumarez, the 

 first Anglican Dean of Guernsey. The lettering and general 

 Character of this tombstone is similar to a contemporary stone at 

 St. Peter's-in-the-Wood. 



At the entrance of the churchyard from the south is the 

 well known figure called locally "La Gran'mere du Chimquiere." 

 A description of this would be outside the scope of this paper. 



The Font is by tradition the original one of the church, and 

 if this is so it is the only specimen in any church in Guernsey. 

 It is said to have been used as a trough in one of the adjacent 

 houses. 



The Pulpit is made up of old materials, badly put together, 

 and the new does not blend well with the old. 



ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH. 



This church consists of the usual Guernsey type, of two 

 aisles and a bell tower at the west of the north aisle. 



The evolution of this church follows closely that of St. 

 Martin's and the Forest. First the eastern end of the south 



