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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lady Well (Glasgow) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in North Lanarkshire

Submitted by KiwiBetsy on Sunday, 24 September 2006  Page Views: 18052

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Glasgow)
Country: Scotland County: North Lanarkshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Glasgow
Map Ref: NS6037765327
Latitude: 55.860844N  Longitude: 4.232409W
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.
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
5

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hidebasket visited on 12th Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 2 Access: 5

Anne T visited on 29th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Lady Well, Glasgow: To get to this well, we had to walk through the path to the south of the cathedral leading to the Necropolis, then use a gate at the junction of Wishart Street and Ladywell Street, walking east towards the dead end of this street. The well is to the northern side of Ladywell Street, opposite an entrance into Tennent’s Wellpark brewery. It is dry, and now somewhat delapidated, although people have left offerings of money. As the Canmore entry reads, Lady Well was “anciently a holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the E bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874.” A small brass plaque reads: “The Lady Well. Restored by Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. 1983.”

feorag visited on 19th Jan 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Visited before, but found an excuse to go back.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 5

Lady Well (Glasgow)
Lady Well (Glasgow) submitted by KiwiBetsy : Site in Renfrewshire The well used to flow from the east bank of the Merchants Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. In 1836, The Merchants House built a niche on the spot to mark the site of it’s exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in North Lanarkshire.

The Lady Well is located in Ladywell Street. It is at the end of the street and tucked into the bottom of the western side of the Glasgow Necropolis.

For more information see Canmore ID 45037 which tells us: "Lady Well, anciently a holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the E bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this holy well - see their entry for Lady Well, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, which has directions for finding this well together with a photograph, a drawing of the well from 1883, an image of the 1865 OS map showing the location of the well and a brief archaeology & history.
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Lady Well (Glasgow)
Lady Well (Glasgow) submitted by Anne T : Photo showing the location of the well, at the eastern end of Ladywell Street, against the northern wall of the lower part of the Necropolis, with Tennent's Wellpark Brewery opposite. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lady Well (Glasgow)
Lady Well (Glasgow) submitted by Anne T : The now dry well 'chamber'; the niche was built by the Merchant's House in 1836 after the holy well became polluted after the building of the Necropolis. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lady Well (Glasgow)
Lady Well (Glasgow) submitted by Anne T : Even though this ancient holy well is now dry (it was polluted by the building of Glasgow's Necropolis and closed), people are still leaving offerings of coins and small pebbles. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lady Well (Glasgow)
Lady Well (Glasgow) submitted by Anne T : Looking directly at the niche of Lady Well, Ladywell Street, one of sixteen public wells listed in Glasgow in 1736. This niche was originally built in 1836, rebuilt in 1874 and restored in 1983. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NS6065 : Memorial to James Mitchell by Lairich Rig
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NS6065 : Glasgow Necropolis by Lairich Rig
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Re: Lady Well (Glasgow) by Sunny100 on Friday, 24 May 2019
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Thanks, now up-dated / changed to North Lanarkshire.
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