La Gran'mère du Chimquière

La Gran'mère du Chimquière ('Grandmother of the Cemetery') is a Neolithic granite statue menhir standing at the gate of St Martin's Parish Church in Guernsey, carved approximately 2500–1800 BCE and reworked during the Roman period to add a headdress and cape. Venerated as a mother-goddess figure for millennia, she received votive offerings of coins, flowers, and food from locals into the 19th century. In 1860 a churchwarden ordered her destruction as tantamount to idolatry; she was broken in two but outraged parishioners demanded she be cemented back together and returned to her gateside position. Newly-wed couples still leave flowers at her feet for luck.