Samarès Manor (
Jèrriais: ''Mangni d'Sanmathès'') is a
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
with medieval origins in the
Vingtaine de Samarès
Vingtaine de Samarès is one of the three vingtaines of the Parish of St. Clement in Jersey, Channel Islands.
It takes its name from the salt marsh that used to occupy much of the area of this low-lying coastal vingtaine.
Samarès used to be s ...
, in the parish of
St. Clement in
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...
, and is the traditional home of the
Seigneur de Samarès. The name Samarès is an old French word meaning salt-marsh, and much of the low-lying surrounding areas are or were coastal marshes.
The gardens are open to the public from April until October.
History
The oldest part of the house is the
undercroft
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open ...
thought to be a
crypt dedicated to
Saint Martha, dating from the 11th or 12th century. Today, the west-wing of the manor house is above the undercroft. The original building, possibly a chapel, which once stood above the crypt is no longer present.
The manor house is a H-plan building with a number of
Tudor arched windows on the ground floor.
The round
colombier is believed to be the oldest in Jersey and may date to as early as the 12th century.
The present gardens were first created in the 1920s by
Sir James Knott who bought the manor in 1924.
This substantial work included re-claiming the salt marsh area near the manor.
On the 12 June 2009, the manor's grounds were used by the
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Samarès Manor farm lies directly to east of the manor house. Many of the buildings are now used as self-catering accommodation.