Holy Well of St Cubert at SW 77337 58896

HOLY WELL OF ST CUBERT AT SW 773 588

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141570
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Holy Well of St Cubert at SW 77337 58896
Statutory Address:
HOLY WELL OF ST CUBERT AT SW 773 588
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141570
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Holy Well of St Cubert at SW 77337 58896
Statutory Address 1:
HOLY WELL OF ST CUBERT AT SW 773 588

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HOLY WELL OF ST CUBERT AT SW 773 588

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cubert
National Grid Reference:
SW7733758896

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/11/2012


SW 75 NE
2/7


CUBERT
Holy well of St Cubert at
SW 773 588


II


Holy well. Medieval origin, probably C15; restored 1936 by the Newquay Old Cornwall
Society. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings.
Plan: Small well house, built into the bank at the rear. There is a screen wall
about 5 metres south of the well house.
Exterior: The well house has a gabled front with raised coped verges; round-arched
doorway with moulded and step stopped surround. Inside there is a sink and plastered
vault roof.
The screen wall is in stone rubble, stepped over a 2-centred arched granite doorway
with moulded surround; small rectangular granite recess set in the wall to right.
The wall is continued, without coping, for about 3 metres to east, and is about l½
metres high. To the rear there is a slate tablet fixed to the wall giving the date
of the restoration.


Listing NGR: SW7733758896

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
63653
Legacy System:
LBS

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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