<< Our Photo Pages >> Tewkesbury Abbey holy well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Gloucestershire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Tewkesbury Abbey holy wellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.318 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Tewkesbury
Map Ref: SO892325
Latitude: 51.990844N Longitude: 2.158692W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The site is in St Margaret's Chapel within Tewkesbury Abbey, on the NW outer wall. It looks a bit like a damaged piscina but clearly isn't that when you look closely.
Pevsner (Buildings of England Gloucestershire 2) describes it as a 'recess, said to have been a holy well', though he doesn't elaborate as to who might have said that. Seems eminently reasonable though.
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