or St Peter Port, the chief town of the island of Guernsey, on a bay on the east coast. It is built on the slope of a hill, and extends nearly a mile along the shore, presenting a very fine appearance from the sea, as the houses rise one above the other along the slope. In the Old Town, the streets are narrow, irregular, and steep, and the houses old and gloomy-looking; but the New Town, as the upper part of St Peter Port is called, and especially Hauteville, which lies to the S.W., are more modern, and much better built; while the neighbouring country is extremely beautiful, and is studded with villas belonging to the gentry, who seldom reside in the town itself. Among the public edifices, one of the most important is the government-house, a large though somewhat heavy building. Near it stands Elizabeth College, founded in 1563 by that queen, and rebuilt (1826–30) in the Tudor style; and not far off is Victoria Tower, erected in honour of the Queen's visit to the town in 1848. St Peter's church, built in 1312, has a tower with a low spire in the centre, and is a good specimen of the flamboyant style of architecture; and there are in the town a number of other churches and chapels belonging to Methodists, Independents, Baptists, Quakers, Roman Catholics, and Plymouth Brethren. The town has also a neat court-house, custom-house, prison, public library, assembly-rooms, and theatre. Besides the college, which has three fellowships and five scholarships at Oxford, there are several schools, as well as a mechanics' institution, with a library of 3000 volumes. The principal charitable establishment is the town hospital for the sick and destitute. The harbour of St Peter Port, formed by two piers 80 feet apart at the entrance, is hardly large enough for the trade of the place. The roadstead, however, affords good anchorage, and is sheltered from the S.W. Two forts, Castle Cornet, an ancient and picturesque structure, on a small island within half a mile of the shore, and Fort George, on the heights about half a mile south of the town, form the defences; and the latter is a place of great strength. The articles manufactured in St Peter Port are tobacco, snuff, soup, candles, bricks, ropes, cordage, cider, and spirits. The principal exports are granite, bricks, cement, potatoes, fruit, and vinegar; the imports, grain, fish, and other articles. St Peter Port sends seventy members to the States of Election, and six to the States of Deliberation. Pop. of parish (1851), 16,778.