St Oswald's Well
ST OSWALD'S WELL, MASERFIELD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054309
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's Well
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALD'S WELL, MASERFIELD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054309
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OSWALD'S WELL, MASERFIELD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALD'S WELL, MASERFIELD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28398 29382
Details
SJ 2829-2929 OSWESTRY C.P. MASERFIELD (south side)
12/84 St. Oswald's Well 10.9.51
- II
Holy well. Of indeterminate but probably medieval date considerably restored by Corporation of Oswestry in 1907 (datestone). Regularly coursed sandstone and conglomerate rubble with plain stepped coping. Roughly carved round arch with voussoirs and C20 iron grille; spring behind and below. Commemorates King Oswald, killed at the Battle of Maserfield, in 642; it is said that an eagle picked up his arm, flew with it and dropped it at this site whence a spring miraculously gushed forth. The surroundings of the well were landscaped in 1985. David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (1978) pp. 304-5.
Listing NGR: SJ2839829382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255557
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farmer, D H, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, (1978), 304-5
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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