Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Well house.

Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls

WRENN ID
strange-lime-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Type
Well house
Address
Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls, Bramham Road, Clifford
OS grid reference
SE 427 441
Coordinates
53.89215, -1.35175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The baptismal well and flanking walls, located on Bramham Road in Clifford, date from the 1840s and were built for Reverend Lewthwaite. The structure is made of coursed magnesian limestone and features a stone slate roof. It is a small, one-storey rectangular building with a chamfered, quoined, pointed-arch doorway that has been blocked up. This doorway is set within a recessed stone panel that includes a wrought-iron lamp bracket. Above the doorway, there is a moulded pointed arch that rises from corbels beneath a continuous impost string course, complete with a hoodmould that features a carved saltire cross on the left stop and an angel on the right stop. Beneath the steeply-pitched gable, there is a sunken rectangular panel with an illegible inscription and a coping that has weathered text along its moulded edge. The rear of the building has a pointed-arched doorway and a hipped roof.

Inside, an iron spigot rises from the well, and the ceiling is adorned with a groined vault. The adjoining walls extend approximately 15 metres on each side and have domed copings; the left wall has an opening with a simple iron gate. A previous description notes that the moulded pointed arch may date from the 15th century. These walls also form the boundary of Fontwell House.

Local climate

Baptismal Well and Flanking Walls receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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