Landmark · Grouville
Grouville Church
A parish church at the foot of Grouville Hill, properly St Martin de Grouville, the west end of the nave probably twelfth-century and built partly of water-worn stones carried up from the beach.
The story
A parish church at the foot of Grouville Hill, properly St Martin de Grouville, the west end of the nave probably twelfth-century and built partly of water-worn stones carried up from the beach. The chancel, tower and spire were added in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, largely at the expense of the Mallet family. The jambs of the ancient Norman west doorway were cut away so that the parish field guns, housed in the church porch, could be brought through. In the churchyard is the grave of seven grenadiers of the 83rd Regiment killed at La Rocque on 6 January 1781 in a party led by Lieutenant James Robertson; the monument was later moved when the old south entrance was closed and the road altered, and the men lie a few yards south of it.
