Holy Well of St Clether
HOLY WELL OF ST CLETHER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159283
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Well of St Clether
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY WELL OF ST CLETHER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159283
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Well of St Clether
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY WELL OF ST CLETHER
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:
- HOLY WELL OF ST CLETHER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Clether
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2023084591
Details
ST CLETHER
SX 28 SW
4/174 Holy Well of St Clether
19/1/52
GV II*
Holy well. Probably C15 with earlier origins, restored in 1897. Roughly dressed
granite with steeply pitched roof constructed of large granite slabs with gable ends
to front and rear.
Plan: Rectangular plan, built into side of bank, with ground rising to rear. The
water flows into the well sump and then is conveyed through an underground channel
under the east end of St Clether Chapel (qv) which stands only 1.5m to the south.
Exterior: Tall narrow wellhouse with high steeply pitched roof; gable end to front.
Hollow chamfered granite basket arch in front with stone rubble walls flanking,
projecting to left and right forming low benches.
Interior: Rectangular plan well sump.
Baring-Gould, S. 'The Well-Chapel of St Clether' Cornish Magazine, vol. 1, 1898.
Lane-Davies, A. Holy Wells of Cornwall, reprinted 1970.
Listing NGR: SX2023084591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lane-Davies, A, Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1970)
Baring Gould, S, Cornish Magazine in The Well Chapel of St Clether, (1898)
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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