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<< Text Pages >> Chapel Well (Irthington) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cumbria

Submitted by Anne T on Tuesday, 05 July 2022  Page Views: 596

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Chapel Well (Irthington)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.443 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Irthington  Nearest Village: Laversdale
Map Ref: NY4791062345
Latitude: 54.953015N  Longitude: 2.814872W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Cumbria

Information about this well comes from the Cumbria Historic Environment Record, HER no. 223, where it is listed as a holy well. However, their description reads: "By tradition it is thought there was a chapel here, but no evidence supports this. There is a natural spring called Chapel Well."

"Chapel Well is at the foot of the hill in an area of marshy grass. It is a simple stone-lined rectangle c 1m on each side. The surrounding ground has been disturbed by cattle using the well as a trough. C 20m below the well there is a small brick-built structure marked on the maps as a 'hydraulic ram'. There were no earthworks or traces of other building remains to suggest a site for a chapel (Hopkins)."

The site of the well is recognised on the Historic England map search, but there is no entry for the well. The well is shown on the National Library of Scotland 1866 25-inch OS map [link shared under the terms of NLS's Creative Commons CC-BY licence], and there is indeed no sign of a chapel or church nearby.

Is this a holy well? Is anyone able to confirm whether this is true? If so, do you know what its waters were used for - baptism, healing and/or restorative purposes?

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NY4762 : The Sportsman Inn at  Laversdale. by John Holmes
by John Holmes
©2006(licence)
NY4762 : The Sportsman Inn, Laversdale by Andrew Curtis
by Andrew Curtis
©2010(licence)
NY4762 : Sportsman Inn, Laversdale - July 2016 by The Carlisle Kid
by The Carlisle Kid
©2016(licence)
NY4762 : The Sportsman Inn, Laversdale by Oliver Dixon
by Oliver Dixon
©2010(licence)
NY4762 : Cumbrian traffic jam! by The Carlisle Kid
by The Carlisle Kid
©2016(licence)

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