St Anns Well is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1997. Drinking well.
St Anns Well
- WRENN ID
- sheer-dormer-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1997
- Type
- Drinking well
- Address
- St Anns Well, the Crescent
- OS grid reference
- SK 057 735
- Coordinates
- 53.25856, -1.91453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Ann's Well is a drinking well located in Buxton, built around 1940 on the site of earlier wells that date back to the Roman period. It is constructed from ashlar gritstone with ashlar dressings and features a marble trough, plinth, and stand, along with bronze figures. The well has a rectangular base with a tall square ashlar pier flanked by lower set back piers that have a moulded plinth and are topped with convex coping. The front displays a shaped centre panel with a round-headed niche that contains mosaic inlay and two bronze figures of St Ann and a child. Above this niche is an inscription that reads: "A TRIBUTE/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ EMELIE DOROTHY BOUNDS/ COUNCILLOR OF THIS BOROUGH/ by her husband and daughter." Below, a bronze lion's head delivers water into the projecting rectangular marble trough on a pedestal stand. This well is included for its group value as an important element of The Crescent.
Local climate
St Anns Well sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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