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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Winefrides Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Wales in Flintshire

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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Winefrides Well Alternative Name: Ffynnon Gwenfrewi
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.349 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Flintshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 Nearest Village: Holywell
Map Ref: SJ18517627  Landranger Map Number: 116
Latitude: 53.277123N  Longitude: 3.223558W
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
5 Ambience:
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5 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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : Outdoor rectangular bathing pool containing the submerged St Beuno’s Stone which can be seen in the photo nearer to the front of the pool than the steps and hand rail in the rear left corner. The well chamber behind the pool is a fine example of late perpendicular architecture creating an almost square crypt covering the wellhead. Around the well, graceful columns rise to support an elaborate ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well / Spring in Flintshire

This well, along with the well chapel, is recorded as: Coflein NPRN 32328, which tells us: "St Winifride's Well and Well chapel is a mid to late fifteenth century perpendicular-style rectangular structure of two storeys. The upper level is occupied by the chapel nave, with a north aisle and a polygonal chancel apse opening onto the east. Below is the well chamber, with a central arcaded basin surrounded by an ambulatory, having an open arcade on the north. It was thought to have been built by order of Lady Margaret Beaufort. The chapel lies immediately east of St James's church."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for St Winefride’s Well, Holywell, Flintshire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a drawing of the well from 1742, a recent photograph and sections on history & legend, mythology & folklore.
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St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : A place of devotion for at least 1300 years, though this well surrounding is 17th Century if I recall correct. A truncated star shaped chamber encloses the spring, which forces it way up in the centre. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : The star shaped pool. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : The internal star shaped pool where the source of the spring is. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : Photo of the pool, there is a small charge to get into this site, but it is very low. There is also a museum and cross at the same site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : The bathing pool closest to the source of the flow of water. The water here was bitterly cold. Painfully. I put my sprained foot (with torn ligaments) into the water in the larger outside pool, and, good grief, it was cold. For someone to bathe in these waters and immerse themselves, they must really perceive the need to. A catholic family nearby, on pilgrimage here from Ireland, found my grimaces... (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : St Winefride - a very sizeable statue of the Saint, with votive candles to Marian apparitions at Knock, Lourdes, and Father Padre Pio, a stigmatic. This statue is inside the main well chamber.

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : The main pool.

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St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : Sculpture of a pilgrim being carried to the well on a friends back. They look down into the well chamber.

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St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : Orbs? These are reflections of camera flash upon droplets of moisture, or dust particles. This is easily demonstrated from the picture at Saint Winefrides Holy Well in North Wales. Having bathed, there is lots of water on the floor (notice trails). It was drizzling outside. The water comes out of the ground in this chamber. It was bitterly cold, so water was not evaporating quickly. As I was the o...

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : When visiting the well, take a look at the surroundings, and carvings in the ceiling. I photographed several of them (no flash so as not to infringe on the devotees there), but this was the only usable picture I had. A triskelion. No doubt a trinitarian reference, but to a Christian or pre-Christian Trinity? This well has been visited for 1300 years plus... and has a convincing case for being in u... (4 comments)

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : The cross.

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St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : This is a [standing?] stone submerged under the water of the main pool. There is more information about this at the site. (1 comment)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by coin : Photo of the tap next to the pool where you can fill a bottle with holy water. (1 comment)

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St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : Window in St Winefride’s Chapel showing scenes from her life.

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St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : St Winefride’s bathing pool viewed from St Winefride’s Chapel.

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St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : St Winefride’s Well is just through the three arches while St Winefride’s Chapel is above them.

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : A place of devotion for at least 1300 years, though this well surrounding is 17th Century if I recall correct. A truncated star shaped chamber encloses the spring, which forces it way up in the centre - note the upthrust of water here. (1 comment)

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by TimPrevett : The two Saints responsible for this location - St Winefride, who was beheaded, and St Beuno, who restored her to life and at which point, it is claimed, a well issued forth. Taken in a side chapel before entering the well chamber.

St Winefrides Well
St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : The spring forces it’s way up through an underwater cairn of rocks into a deep, star shaped pool of crystal clear water. The water passes from this pool into a narrow deep bath with steps at each end before flowing to the outdoor bathing pool. (2 comments)

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Re:St Winifrede's Well by coldrum on Thursday, 08 April 2010
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Re:St Winifrede's Well by coldrum on Thursday, 07 January 2010
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Coflein entry.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/32328/details/ST+WINIFRIDE%27S+WELL+AND+WELL+CHAPEL/
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Another St Winifred's Well by TimPrevett on Saturday, 23 September 2006
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There is also another well dedicated to this saint in Woolston, Shropshire. See HERE for more.
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Bathing at St Winifrede's Well by TimPrevett on Wednesday, 15 March 2006
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Following in the tradition of at least 1400 years of visitors, I bathed here today in the customary manner for a number of personal / medical reasons. Crumbs, it is quite something... and shockingly cold. Last summer just dipping my foot in was cold enough... but complete immersion on several times was unspeakably cold. Comfortably numb? No! But quite a profound experience, yes.
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Re: St Winifrede's Well by Anonymous on Wednesday, 27 July 2005
Visited Oct. 2005 with a small group of like-minded women. We found the spot to be peaceful, inspiring and definitely a place of miraculous healing. Many of the photos we took inside the church contained orbs. One of our merry band holds the surname "Stanley"- so we were pleased to see the connection to the area. (ie. stained glass windows in the church.)
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Re: St Winifrede's Well by TimPrevett on Monday, 30 May 2005
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Saint Winefride's Well is a site with a near nominal admission charge, and now have a website: saintwinefrideswell.com.

The town signs for Holywell desribe it as "The Lourdes of Wales". We wondered if Lourdes has a sign describing it as "The Holywell of France". :o)
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Re: St Winifrede's Well by KiwiBetsy on Friday, 26 November 2004
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St Winifrede lived in the 7th century. As a young lady she was called Gwenfrewi and was the victim of an attempted rape by a spurned suitor named Caradoc. As she fled to St Beuno’s (her uncles) church, the suitor caught and beheaded her. Hearing the commotion, St Beuno cursed Caradoc, replaced Gwenfrewi’s head and prayed over her restoring her to life.

Where her head had fallen, legend says a spring of healing water gushed forth. As they sat together on St Beuno’s stone, he told her that anyone coming to the well and asking in her name may receive a cure on their third visit (hence today’s three trips through the pool). St Winifrede lived out her life as a nun and became abbess at Gwytherin.

There is a continuous record of cure for over 800 years and it is interesting to view the book of cures held by the custodian.
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