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