Wishing Well in Corner of Enclosure to Former Hollinshead Hall
WISHING WELL IN CORNER OF ENCLOSURE TO FORMER HOLLINSHEAD HALL, TOCKHOLES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241811
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wishing Well in Corner of Enclosure to Former Hollinshead Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WISHING WELL IN CORNER OF ENCLOSURE TO FORMER HOLLINSHEAD HALL, TOCKHOLES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241811
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wishing Well in Corner of Enclosure to Former Hollinshead Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISHING WELL IN CORNER OF ENCLOSURE TO FORMER HOLLINSHEAD HALL, TOCKHOLES ROAD
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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:
- WISHING WELL IN CORNER OF ENCLOSURE TO FORMER HOLLINSHEAD HALL, TOCKHOLES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tockholes
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 66371 19922
Details
SD 61 NE TOCKHOLES (off) TOCKHOLES ROAD
6/78 "Wishing Well" in corner of enclosure - to former Hollinshead Hall
- II
Building enclosing well or spring, probably C18. Sandstone rubble with dressings, stone slate roof. Single cell built into slope, with open forecourt protected by high walls which have stone side benches and, at the outer ends, inward-facing chamfered piers with ball finials. Symmetrical gabled facade of wellhouse has chamfered doorway with heavy board door, flanked by single-light chamfered unglazed windows fitted with spear-headed iron bars, and in the gable a large oval opening (matching another which is the only opening in the rear wall). Interior: Vaulted roof with a pendent bell in the centre, stone side benches, diamond-paved floor with central gutter draining from well at centre of rear wall: this is a small sunken stone tank with a reredos of Ionic colonnettes framing an alcove with a crudely carved lion's head and paws, above which is a moulded rectangular surround to a plaque (now missing). Each side of this structure is a rectangular recess enclosing a rectangular pool both linked to that in centre, and in the side walls close to these a small rectangular recess. Described by Abram (Blackburn, 1877) as "an antique well, enclosing a spring of water of curative properties to which, of yore, the name of 'Holy Well' was given".
Listing NGR: SD6637119922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440656
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Abram, W A, History of Blackburn, (1877)
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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