According to Terry Faul, in his lovely book on Devon's Wells (Secrets of the Hidden Source - published by Halsgrove, '04):
"The spring that feeds the well is ancient and has always existed close to where the church now stands; it is mentioned in a deed of 1570. However the present well-house is not in the original location. The spring was on land purchased in about 1875 for the Glebe to support a parson in the parish; some 30 years after this, the then incumbent seems to have become concerned about the number of people crossing his land to reach the well. A scheme was designed to pipe the water from the spring across the land to a new well-house on the roadside. This was built from stone tracery taken from the church windows during restoration in the 1850s. So St Leonard's Well is built of ancient stones and the water is from the original spring, but its location is Victorian."
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