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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Mary's Well (Cornwall) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cornwall

Submitted by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 20 July 2004  Page Views: 7389

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Mary's Well (Cornwall)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.223 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Looe  Nearest Village: East Looe
Map Ref: SX256534  Landranger Map Number: 201
Latitude: 50.354613N  Longitude: 4.452973W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 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.
 5 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
 3

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St Mary's Well (Cornwall)
St Mary's Well (Cornwall) submitted by cazzyjane : St Mary's Well, about 50 yards up Shutta Road, East Looe. This was restored by the Looe Old Cornwall Society, but unfortunately they have replaced the old wooden door with a padlocked gate. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well / Spring in Cornwall

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St Mary's Well (Cornwall)
St Mary's Well (Cornwall) submitted by rogerkread : Not St Mary's Well! Looks like it was once a well though. This is to be found on the left hand side of the main road heading out of Looe to the West, marked as a spring on the 1:25 000 map. SX246535 is the approximate grid ref - hmmm, remarkably similar to the one given by Thorgrim except for two single digit changes. Maybe it is St Mary's Well after all! (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Mary's Well (Cornwall)
St Mary's Well (Cornwall) submitted by cazzyjane : The interior of St Mary's Well, surprisingly cave like. Taken with a flash through the gate. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SX2553 : The Ship Inn East Looe by Dr Duncan Pepper
by Dr Duncan Pepper
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SX2553 : East Looe by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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SX2553 : OS benchmark - Looe, clocktower of the Guildhall by Richard Law
by Richard Law
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SX2553 : Barclays Bank, Looe by Jaggery
by Jaggery
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SX2553 : The Looe Gift Shop, Fore Street, East Looe by Jaggery
by Jaggery
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 1.0km SSE 167° St Martin's Well (Shutta) Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX258524)
 1.1km NNE 26° Barrow near Looe Barrow Cemetery (SX2611054356)
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Re: St Mary's Well (Cornwall) by rogerkread on Thursday, 30 June 2016
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On a recent visit I attempted to locate both St Mary's and St Martin's wells in Looe without success. I asked various locals (as well as at the Tourist Information, but of course as ever they were of no help) and nobody had heard of a St Mary's Well. St Martin's near the church of that name was vaguely known though I didn't find it.
However, the apparent well in these photographs is unlikely to be St Mary's. The owner of the secondhand bookshop very near it informed me that it was formerly a copious town water supply fed from a large cistern well further up the hill which has been more or less destroyed by workmen during 'renovations', and the water now is largely stagnant. Possibly the cistern well was St Mary's, though the bookshop guy did not think this was likely.
He did however tell me of the remains of another potential well site, and I have included a photograph of that above as it hardly warrants a separate entry.
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