During a parish meeting this week, 20 residents discussed the scheme and gave their support to the project.
Under the plans, which are with the Planning Department, the current 60-year-old home and grounds on Rectory Lane would be sold.
The sale price would more than cover the cost of building a new vicarage on the site of the disused parish secretary’s home next to the parish hall, according to Constable Sadie Le Sueur-Rennard.
She said: ‘Where the rectory is now is absolutely beautiful, it’s a huge plot.
‘It has been valued and can easily cover the cost of the new building.
‘We are hoping that the funding will come eventually from the selling of the present rectory, so one will fund the other.’
The Constable added: ‘The parish meeting went well.
‘We had 20 people there and they mostly asked questions about funding and that sort of thing.
‘Everybody agreed that the rectory we have now has to go.
‘But it’s going to get upgraded first so that the next incumbent can use it for the next two years.’
THE JEP reported that an Ecclesiastical Assembly consisting of 32 principals and officers of St Saviour met at the parish hall on 18 October 1960.
They named an 11-strong committee to prepare a report and make recommendations to a future assembly on the question of selling the rectory and building a new one.
It was said that the upkeep of this lovely old house was proving to costly for present-day rectors, comprising as it did of eight bedrooms (not counting the attics), one dining-room, one living-room, one study and four vergees of land including one vergee of garden along with extensive outbuildings.
It was thought that the sale of the rectory would more than cover the cost of bulding a new, more modern house which would be more in keeping with the stipend of the poorly-paid clergy.
