Jesus Well
JESUS WELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124712
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Jesus Well
- Statutory Address:
- JESUS WELL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14132/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124712
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jesus Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- JESUS WELL
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:
- JESUS WELL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Minver Lowlands
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9376976397
Details
SW 97 NW ST MINVER
LOWLANDS
3/309 Jesus Well (previously listed as
Jesus Well, Trewint Farm)
6.6.69
II
Wellhouse to Holy Well. Possibly rebuilt in late C19 and restored in C20. Stone
rubble with corbelled stone rubble roof with gable ends.
Rectangular plan. Entrance in gable end with 4-centred arch with chamfered granite
head possibly reused.
Interior: inscribed slate stone in threshold
JESUS WELL
JESUS SAITH UNTO HER
GIVE ME TO DRINK
Timor Domini Fons Vitae
M.L. Quiller Couch in his Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall recorded the well prior
to restoration;
"This rude well stands on a bleak high down in the lowlands of St. Minver where water
could hardly be expected.. .it is after half buried with drifting sea sand... The
building is square in form with a highly pitched but truncated roof of masonry. A
niche of rude shape is in the further end of the Well, it may be to hold a drinking
vessel, crucifix or effigy of a Saint".
Meyrick, J. A pilgrims guide to the holy wells of Cornwall, 1982
Listing NGR: SW9376976397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Meyrick, J, A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1982)
Quiller Couch, L, Quiller Couch, M, Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1894)
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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