<< Text Pages >> St John's Well (Glenluce) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St John's Well (Glenluce)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.156 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Stranraer Nearest Village: Glenluce
Map Ref: NX19705752
Latitude: 54.879832N Longitude: 4.812006W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Dumfries and Galloway
Canmore Site ID 61208, 'Glenluce, St John's Well' records this as a holy well.
An entry from 1968 says: "There is a well close to Old Luce Parish Church which some local people refer to as 'St John's Well', while others say it has no special name'. This was updated by R &F Morris in their 1982 publication "Scottish Healing Wells" to say "This well (unnamed) still sends its water from under an old coping stone".
The location of the well is in the north-eastern corner of the burial ground in Glenluce, although the well (and its outflow) can't be seen on the Google Earth images (that I can make out).
Does anyone has any information about this well? Can you confirm its name and classification as a holy well? If so, do you know what its waters were used for - baptisms at the church, healing and/or restorative purposes?
Have you visited this site? Can you confirm the well still exists? Do you have any photographs you can add? Thank you.
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