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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Glasgow)Country: Scotland County: North Lanarkshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Glasgow
Map Ref: NS6037765327
Latitude: 55.860844N Longitude: 4.232409W
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 |
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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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hidebasket visited on 12th Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 2 Access: 5
Anne T visited on 29th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Lady Well, Glasgow: To get to this well, we had to walk through the path to the south of the cathedral leading to the Necropolis, then use a gate at the junction of Wishart Street and Ladywell Street, walking east towards the dead end of this street. The well is to the northern side of Ladywell Street, opposite an entrance into Tennent’s Wellpark brewery. It is dry, and now somewhat delapidated, although people have left offerings of money.
As the Canmore entry reads, Lady Well was “anciently a holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the E bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874.”
A small brass plaque reads: “The Lady Well. Restored by Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. 1983.”
feorag visited on 19th Jan 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Visited before, but found an excuse to go back.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 5
The Lady Well is located in Ladywell Street. It is at the end of the street and tucked into the bottom of the western side of the Glasgow Necropolis.
For more information see Canmore ID 45037 which tells us: "Lady Well, anciently a holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the E bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this holy well - see their entry for Lady Well, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, which has directions for finding this well together with a photograph, a drawing of the well from 1883, an image of the 1865 OS map showing the location of the well and a brief archaeology & history.
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