<< 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 GwenfrewiCountry: 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:
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 |
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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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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 4.5
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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