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<< Text Pages >> St Thenew's Well (Glasgow) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in North Lanarkshire

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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Thenew's Well (Glasgow) Alternative Name: St Tenew's Well (Glasgow); St. Theneu's Well (Glasgow)
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.158 km away from the location you searched for.

County: North Lanarkshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Glasgow
Map Ref: NS589648
Latitude: 55.855682N  Longitude: 4.255713W
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
Destroyed 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
3

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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in North Lanarkshire

This well, now built over or destroyed, is recorded as Canmore ID 44288, which tells us: "St Thenew's Well is shown (in the area NS 589 648) S of St Thenew's Chapel ... Walker quotes references to this well in Glasgow burgh records of 1573 and 1595. MacGeorge states that a tree stood beside the well, and pieces of metal were inserted into it as offerings. Some of these were recovered when the well was being cleaned out at the end of the 18th century. (This area is now built up.)"

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this holy well - see their entry for St. Thenew’s Well, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, which shows the location of the well on an early map, together with descriptions of it from historical sources from the 19th and early 20th century. TNA adds: "the statement of the late Mr Robert Hart, who told M’George that he had been informed by an old man, a Mr Thomson, who had resided in the neighbourhood of St. Enoch’s Square, that in the beginning of the last century, say 1800, he recollected the well being cleaned out, and of seeing picked from the debris at the bottom many old coins and votive offerings. St. Tenew’s Well was a holy well. For centuries it was a place of pilgrimage and was much resorted to for cures, especially in pre-Reformation days."

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