There is a very real truth to Francois-Victor Hugo's statement in La Normandie Inconnue that 'the organisation of the Jersey municipality is wholly English ...In Jersey, the state is Norman, but the parish is English'. This is a history of a particular parish church in many ways typical of the generality of parish churches within the realm of England and the Channel Islands. The author has taken great care in the compilation of the church's history, and views with caution starry-eyed stories as to the origin of the church.