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<< Our Photo Pages >> St. John's Well (Warwickshire) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Warwickshire

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 05 December 2011  Page Views: 5423

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
Country: England County: Warwickshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 Nearest Village: Honiley
Map Ref: SP24487234
Latitude: 52.348589N  Longitude: 1.642047W
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
no data Ambience:
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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
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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
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alchemille visited on 14th May 2020 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 1 Access: 4 It was not even worth a picture, the place is full of brambles and nettles. It was very disappointing. Worth the walk from Kenilworth Castle to Honiley.

St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
St. John's Well (Warwickshire) submitted by HarryTwenty : Overgrown by weeds. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Warwickshire

"St. Thomas in his edition of Dugdale (1730) inserted a long extract from an alleged court roll of 18 Henry VIII. It asserted that St John's Well was a place of Pilgrimage, 'St. John's bath' and 'our Ladys bath' being used respectively for the cleansing of male and female incontinent penitents.

"There is still a slight issue of water from the indicated site, but only scattered fragments of masonry remain."

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St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
St. John's Well (Warwickshire) submitted by HarryTwenty : The well is sited in the trees to the right. St. John's Church was allegedly designed by Sir Christopher Wren shortly before he died. Lovely building. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
St. John's Well (Warwickshire) submitted by HarryTwenty : Concrete capping. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
St. John's Well (Warwickshire) submitted by HarryTwenty : Weeds removed. The well has been capped off. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. John's Well (Warwickshire)
St. John's Well (Warwickshire) submitted by HarryTwenty : Site of the well. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SP2472 : Farmland near Honiley by Bill Boaden
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SP2472 : St John the Baptist, Honiley: churchyard (a) by Basher Eyre
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SP2472 : St John the Baptist, Honiley: churchyard (b) by Basher Eyre
by Basher Eyre
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SP2472 : St John the Baptist, Honiley: churchyard (c) by Basher Eyre
by Basher Eyre
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SP2472 : St John the Baptist, Honiley: churchyard (d) by Basher Eyre
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Re: St. John's Well (Warwickshire) by Anonymous on Saturday, 18 February 2012
The church was designed by Wren, he doodled the plan on a napkin while dining with the local squire.

St John's Well may have been a famous centre of pilgrimage in medieval times. There exists a, possibly forged, charter from Henry VIII's time, which suggests that there were two structures as part of the shrine; one each for the use of men and women separately.

It is thought that two existing structures situated close to the church mark the site of the entrance buildings to the medieval shrine, but it is hard to see how this could have been so.

All that remains of the shrine is a boggy patch behind the church, and some possibly related fragments of masonry.

St John is patron saint of burns victims and the poisoned, so perhaps that might have been the therapeutic speciality of the well.
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