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Submitted by DavidCWoods on Sunday, 19 December 2004 Page Views: 5719

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Ravenstone)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.683 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Buckinghamshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Bedford Nearest Village: Ravenstone
Map Ref: SP849510
Latitude: 52.150768N Longitude: 0.760558W
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**Holy Well (Ravenstone)** submitted by DavidCWoods : Not desperately spectacular I'm afraid, but the edge of the moated area can be seen in the background. The landowner told me that the surrounding fruit trees are very old. (Vote or comment on this photo)

George Lipscombe, in his "History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham" in the 18th Century, identified "a well in an orchard near to a filled in fishpond. It was covered with an ancient wrought stone". The holy well is the last vestige of the Augustinian Priory of Ravenstone, demolished in about 1526.

The landowner was happy for me to visit, and in December I did so. She directed me through the gate and down the hill to the north of the church. The field shows many signs of its development as the site of the Priory, with humps and hollows and, near the eastern corner of the field, a few small half-buried pieces of masonry.

There is a large area surrounded by what appeared to be a dry moat, and within the area was a small fenced square – this, I was told, was the well. Sure enough, on prodding the undergrowth a stone cover could be seen. I scraped a little of the moss away but could see not inscription. This may or may not be the original stone.

The 1885 OS map shows a Chalybeate Spring north north west of All Saints’ Church. Following further directions I crossed a gate in the northern corner of the field, then turned left along the bank of a stream which ran along the bottom edge of the field containing the Priory site. Almost in the southern corner of this second field was a very old ash tree, split almost in half. In the roots of the tree was the spring – covered in brambles and very boggy, with a small amount of water emerging and then vanishing back into the ground. This, I am sure, is the Chalybeate Spring.
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SP8550 : All Saints, Ravenstone - Font by John Salmon — by John Salmon
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