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
Country
England
Type
Holy well
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 2829-2929 OSWESTRY C.P. MASERFIELD (south side)

12/84 St. Oswald's Well 10.9.51

  • II

Holy well. Of indeterminate but probably medieval date considerably restored by Corporation of Oswestry in 1907 (datestone). Regularly coursed sandstone and conglomerate rubble with plain stepped coping. Roughly carved round arch with voussoirs and C20 iron grille; spring behind and below. Commemorates King Oswald, killed at the Battle of Maserfield, in 642; it is said that an eagle picked up his arm, flew with it and dropped it at this site whence a spring miraculously gushed forth. The surroundings of the well were landscaped in 1985. David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (1978) pp. 304-5.

Listing NGR: SJ2839829382

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