GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332556
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL

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Date:: 2001-01-08
Reference:: IOE01/03297/06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332556
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL

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:: GATE PIERS AND HOLY WELL 120 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF TRESCOBEL

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Kew
National Grid Reference:: SX0234476780

Details

SX 07 NW ST KEW ST KEW 5/223 Gate-piers and holy well 120m to - south east of Trescobel GV II Gate piers with flanking walls and adjoining holy well house. Circa 1890's when the holy well was rebuilt by Rev. N.T. Every, Vicar of St. Kew. Ashlar walls and piers; the well house is stone rubble and brick. Entrance gateway with pair of gate-piers and flanking quadrant walls with terminal piers. The holy well is partly incorporated into and behind the left hand wall. Pair of ashlar gate-piers, square-on-plan with pyramidal granite caps. Flanking ashlar quadrant walls with granite coping, terminating in square piers also with granite pyramidal caps. The well house is behind the left hand wall; of stone rubble with a brick basket arch opening with a plank door and a timber cross above. The well opening is square-on-plan. The gateway is situated at the main entrance to the former Rectory and the Vicar Rev. N.T. Every rebuilt the holy well in his garden partly incorporating it into the entrance gateway. Lane-Davies, A Holy Wells of Cornwall Rp 1970 Meyrick, J A pilgrims guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, 1982

Listing NGR: SX0234476780

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Legacy System number:: 351560
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Sources

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Lane-Davies, A, Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1970)
Meyrick, J, A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1982)

Legal

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