St Anne's Well Head and Drinking Bowl is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Well-head.
St Anne's Well Head and Drinking Bowl
- WRENN ID
- iron-chimney-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Well-head
- Address
- St Anne's Well Head and Drinking Bowl, Priest Hill
- OS grid reference
- SU 711 750
- Coordinates
- 51.46979, -0.97669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Anne's Well-head and drinking bowl is a structure likely originating from the medieval period, with its current form probably dating to the mid-19th century. The well is now dry. It features a circular brick construction that includes a stone tablet and a drinking fountain, which was added in the early 20th century. A tablet indicates that the well was once a site of pilgrimage due to the believed healing properties of its water. Below the tablet is a disused drinking bowl. The well-head is topped with an oval-section iron grille and an iron cross, and it has a stepped base.
Local climate
St Anne's Well Head and Drinking Bowl sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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