St Oswald's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Holy well.
St Oswald's Well
- WRENN ID
- fallow-moat-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Holy well
- Address
- St Oswald's Well, Maserfield, Oswestry
- OS grid reference
- SJ 283 293
- Coordinates
- 52.85716, -3.06485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Oswald's Well is a holy well, likely of medieval origin, that was significantly restored by the Corporation of Oswestry in 1907, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed from regularly coursed sandstone and conglomerate rubble, featuring plain stepped coping. The well has a roughly carved round arch with voussoirs and a 20th-century iron grille, with a spring located behind and below it. This well commemorates King Oswald, who was killed at the Battle of Maserfield in 642. According to legend, an eagle carried his arm and dropped it at this location, causing a spring to miraculously emerge. The area around the well was landscaped in 1985.
Local climate
St Oswald's Well receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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