Holy Well
HOLY WELL, LANDAVIDDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160144
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Well
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY WELL, LANDAVIDDY LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160144
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY WELL, LANDAVIDDY LANE
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, LANDAVIDDY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2039051055
Details
LANSALLOS LANDAVIDDY LANE, Polperro
SX 2051-2151
5/31 Holy Well
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II
Holy well house. Well probably dedicated to St Peter. Possibly medieval origins.
Field spring issuing from rock. Believed that much of well disappeared during road
works in C20. Chapel of St Peter of Porthpyre was situated in field above well.
Quiller Couch described spring in 1895 as
"never dry and much credited for its special virtues reputation has long survived the
edifice which once enclosed its holy water and the name of its patron is gone for
ever though probably was St Peter the special guardian of Fishermen as on Landaviddy
Estate where the Well is situated are the ruins of the chapel of St Peter of
Porthpyre existing in 1392. The spring is still resorted to by those with bad eyes
and other ailments and if ceremonies are done aright with well attested benefits.
LANE-DAVIES, A Holy Wells of Cornwall Reprinted 1970
MEYRICK, J A Pilgrims guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall 1982.
Listing NGR: SX2039051055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Meyrick, J, A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1982)
Lane-Davies, A, Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1970)
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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