Sight / landmark | Art & culture
St. Matthew’s Glass Church
St. Matthew’s started life in the 1840s as a modest chapel of ease, built at the foot of Mont Felard to spare parishioners the long uphill trek to the ancient Parish Church of St. Lawrence. Over the next century, the hamlet of Millbrook flourished, from the coming of the Jersey Railway to the age when planes landed on St. Aubin’s Bay.
- Free entry
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René Lalique, artisan extraordinaire and the foremost glassmaker of the age, decorated the entire church with his finest work. No similar Lalique commission survives anywhere else in the world today.
In 1934, St. Matthew’s became the Glass Church with 2 frosted glass angels set in the double doors, welcoming you into this astonishing house of worship and work of art. The centrepiece is a shining, towering cross over 3m high, festooned with lilies and soaring over the altar. It is flanked by twin illuminated pillars and framed by 4 glass screens that shimmer like a wall of ice.
Today it remains a sublime work of art, a unique monument to the talents of René Lalique and one of Jersey’s hidden treasures.
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We are open all year round.
| Monday: | 09:00 - 16:00 |
| Tuesday: | 09:00 - 15:00 |
| Wednesday: | 09:00 - 16:00 |
| Thursday: | 09:00 - 15:00 |
| Friday: | 09:00 - 16:00 |
| Saturday: | closed |
| Sunday: | 13:30 - 16:00 |
- Indoor
- Family friendly
- Couples
- Wheelchair access
- Parking
Location
St. Matthew’s Church
La Route de St Aubin
Jersey
St. Lawrence
JE3 1LN
