Sark - Church Tower & Chasse-Marais, tractor - postcard, 1984
- Condition : Used
- Dispatch : 2 Days
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- ID# : 182641987
- Quantity : 1 item
- Views : 75
- Location : United Kingdom
- Seller : justthebook (+1600)
- Barcode : None
- Start : Mon 17 Jun 2019 15:27:03 (BST)
- Close : Run Until Sold
- Remain : Run Until Sold
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Seller's Description
- Postcard
- Picture / Image: Church Tower from Chasse-Marais, Sark [Channel Islands]
- Publisher: Chris Andrews Photographic Art, Gateway Publishing Ltd., Sark
- Postally used: no
- Stamp: n/a
- Postmark(s): n/a
- Sent to: n/a
- Notes / condition:
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Sark (French: Sercq; Sercquiais: Sèr or Cerq) is a small island in the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population of about 600. Sark (including the nearby island of Brecqhou) has an area of 2.10 square miles (5.44 km2).[1] Sark is one of the few remaining places in the world where cars are banned from roads and only tractors and horse-drawn vehicles are allowed.[2] In 2011, Sark was designated as a Dark Sky Community and the first Dark Sky Island in the world.
In common with the other Channel Islands, Sark is attached to the Anglican diocese of Winchester.
Sark has an Anglican church (St. Peter's, built 1820) and a Methodist[62] church. John Wesley first proposed a mission to Sark in 1787. Jean de Quetteville of Jersey subsequently began preaching there, initially in a cottage at Le Clos à Geon and then at various houses around Sark. Preachers from Guernsey visited regularly, and in 1796, land was donated by Jean Vaudin, leader of the Methodist community in Sark, for the construction of a chapel, which Jean de Quetteville dedicated in 1797.[63] In the mid-1800s there was a small Plymouth Brethren assembly. Its most notable member was the classicist William Kelly (1821–1906). Kelly was then the tutor to the Seigneur's children.
Supported by the evidence of the names of the tenements of La Moinerie and La Moinerie de Haut, it is believed[64] that the Seigneurie was constructed on the site of the monastery of Saint Magloire. Magloire had been Samson of Dol's successor as bishop of Dol, but retired and founded a monastery in Sark where he died in the late sixth century. According to the vita of Magloire, the monastery housed 62 monks and a school for the instruction of the sons of noble families from the Cotentin. Magloire's relics were venerated at the monastery until the mid-ninth century when Viking raids rendered Sark unsafe, and the monks departed for Jersey, taking the relics with them.
Listing Information
Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
Listing ID# | 182641987 |
Start Time | Mon 17 Jun 2019 15:27:03 (BST) |
Close Time | Run Until Sold |
Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
Item Condition | Used |
Bids | 0 |
Views | 75 |
Dispatch Time | 2 Days |
Quantity | 1 |
Location | United Kingdom |
Auto Extend | No |