ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS

ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS, SUDELEY HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340263
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS, SUDELEY HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340263
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ST KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS, SUDELEY 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 KENELM'S WELL AT SP 043278 INCLUDING RAILINGS, SUDELEY HILL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Winchcombe
National Grid Reference:: SP 04358 27795

Details

SP 02 NW WINCHCOMBE SUDELEY HILL (off north side) 3/179 St Kenelm's Well at 4.7.60 SP 043278 including railings

- II

Well-head building. Dated 1887 but possibly incorporating some elements from C16 building on the site. Large limestone ashlar blocks to coped gables with finials and stone slate roof to dentil course eaves stopped to scroll brackets at each end; moulded plinth offset. At entrance end small chamfered lights with scrolls as cusping and central flat-backed statue niche, pedimented with figure carrying sword and orb (?); this sits over entablature over plank and stud door in chamfered surround. Inscrip- tion reads 'AD 819 S.KENELMUS'. An inscription within says, inter alia that the 'shrine' was erected at the time of Queen Elizabeth, but recon- structed in 1887. Building enclosed by C19 iron railings, 5 panels x 9 panels, and gates. Traditionally a site where St Kenelm's body rested en route to the Abbey. A chapel stood here in the middle ages.

Listing NGR: SP0435827795

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Legacy System number:: 134087
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.