THE CHAPEL OF SAINT APOLLINE. 



Ix the month of tluly of this year the members of our 

 Society visited S. Apolline's Chapel in S. Saviour's parish, 

 where the Rev. G. E. Lee, F.S.A., Rector of S. Peter-Port, 

 met them and read an account of the chapel, which was 

 written by the late Sir Edgar MacCulloch, F.S.A., in the 

 year 1875 for the " St. James' District Magazine." This 

 valuable paper being now out of print we think it well to 

 reproduce it in extenso for the benefit of our members. 



" The Chapel of Sahite Apolline is the only one of the 

 private chapels, once numerous in this Island, which has es- 

 caped destruction, and is also the one of which the history 

 can be traced from the day of its foundation to the very eve 

 of the Reformation. In this instance Ave have a striking 

 proof of the extreme uncertainty of popular tradition which 

 has assigned a fabulous date to the erection of this Chapel, 

 asserting that it was in existence long before any of the 

 parish churches. To those acquainted with the subject, the 

 style of architecture of the building itself is sufficient to dis- 

 prove this opinion ; for the vault which covers it exhibits the 

 pointed arch which, it is well known, did not make its 

 appearance in the edifices of the middle ages until the latter 

 half of the 12th century, say about 1150, whereas all our 

 parishes are named in documents anterior to the Conquest of 

 England by the Normans in 1066. 



From the Cartulary of Mont-Saint-Michel we learn that 

 in the year 1054, William Pichenoht, moved by compunction 

 for the many and great sins he had committed, and desirous 

 of taking the monastic habit in that renowned monastery, 

 gave, with the consent of Duke William of Normandy, his 

 lands of la Perrelle with all their appurtenances to the Abbey. 

 These lands were, no doubt, leased out afterwards by the 

 Monks to various individuals on the terms usual in those 

 early days, the Abbey retaining the Seigneurie or Lordship 

 over the whole. 



In October 1392, a certain Nicholas Henry, of la Perrelle, 

 obtained the consent of the Abbot and Monks of Mont-St.- 

 Michel, as Lords of the Manor, to the endowment of a 



