St Christopher's Well in Denton Park is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. A Romantic Grotto.

St Christopher's Well in Denton Park

WRENN ID
secret-attic-smoke
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Type
Grotto
Period
Romantic
Address
St Christopher's Well in Denton Park, Harston Road
OS grid reference
SK 861 320
Coordinates
52.87886, -0.72076
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St. Christopher's Well, located in Denton Park, is a Grade II* listed well and grotto built in 1823. Constructed from tufa, the grotto is designed to look as though it is underground, featuring a naturalistic archway that leads into a circular cavern with a tufa vault that incorporates ammonite fossils. Beneath the wall facing the archway, there is a small circular well, from which a water-filled gully flows to the lake. Above the well, an inscribed stone displays three verses of a romantic poem along with the date of 1823 in Roman numerals. This structure was created as a landscape ornament for the Welby family within the grounds of Denton Park.

Local climate

St Christopher's Well in Denton Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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