ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL

ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL, PRIEST HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321915
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL
Statutory Address:: ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL, PRIEST HILL

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Date:: 2001-07-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321915
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL
Statutory Address 1:: ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL, PRIEST HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ST ANNE'S WELL HEAD AND DRINKING BOWL, PRIEST HILL

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

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71174 75032

Details

PRIEST HILL 1. 5128 St Anne's Well-head and drinking bowl SU 7175 10/280 II 2. Date not ascertained. Probably of mediaeval origins, present structure probably mid C19. Now dry. The well-head is a circular brick structure with a stone tablet and drinking fountain and is early C20. A tablet states that the well was formerly a place of pilgrimage on account of the supposed healing properties of the water. Disused drinking bowl below tablet. The well-head is covered by a grille of iron bars (oval in section) and crowned with an iron cross. Stepped base.

Listing NGR: SU7117475032

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

Legacy System number:: 39130
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.