THE HOLY WELL

THE HOLY WELL, HOLYWELL FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330789
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:: THE HOLY WELL
Statutory Address:: THE HOLY WELL, HOLYWELL FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330789
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:: THE HOLY WELL
Statutory Address 1:: THE HOLY WELL, HOLYWELL FRONT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE HOLY WELL, HOLYWELL FRONT

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Holywell-cum-Needingworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 33651 70790

Details

HOLYWELL-CUM-NEEDINGWORTH HOLYWELL FRONT 1. 5140 Holywell TL 37 SW 7/35 The Holy Well II 2. Ancient well, fed by a natural spring. Covered by a semi-circular brick shelter with an elliptical arched opening facing east, capped by a C13 or C14 stone corbel and stone plaque with the inscription 'Rev S B Beckwith Rector of this Parish AD 1845'. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 141).

Listing NGR: TL3365170790

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Legacy System number:: 54050
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 141

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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.