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

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Wednesday, 29 December 2010  Page Views: 5245

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. John's Well (Somerset)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.339 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Somerset Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Taunton  Nearest Village: Wembdon
Map Ref: ST282377
Latitude: 51.134053N  Longitude: 3.027556W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
1 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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St. John's Well (Somerset)
St. John's Well (Somerset) submitted by HOLYWELL : St John's Well found in a private garden in the village. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Somerset

It is nice to record, for a change, an improvement in the condition of site recorded by an earlier authority. The antiquarian Horne (1923) records that the well was 'nothing much to look at...like an ordinary draw well, being a deep hole in the ground, covered at the top with a flat stone with a circular hole in it. It is situated in some garden or allotment grounds, and is not easy to find.'
The allotments have gone, with housing on the site, but instead of this usually destroying such a site it appears to have stimulated an improvement and the well is a restored stone structure befiting that found in say Cornwall. Nestled rather romantically at the bottom of a modern semi in the village centre and rather unheralded. It is large pitched roofed and tiled well house with a cross on one of its finials. One side is open to the elements, rather like a lean to and here can be seen the original circular well described by Horne brimming with clear water. I should note that as the well lies in a private garden access is only with help of the owner or in my case when I visited in the 1990s, the builder.
He also notes a 1464 report to the Bishop describing 'an immense concourse' of people have resorted to find help from 'various bodily diseases', and have been 'restored to their pristine health'.
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St. John's Well (Somerset)
St. John's Well (Somerset) submitted by HOLYWELL : Viewed from the top of the garden. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. John's Well (Somerset)
St. John's Well (Somerset) submitted by HOLYWELL : The well brimming with nice clear water. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. John's Well (Somerset)
St. John's Well (Somerset) submitted by HOLYWELL : Inside the well chamber, doubling as a shed! (Vote or comment on this photo)

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