Holy Well of St Gennys About 3 Metres South East of the South Churchyard Gate of the Church of St Gennys is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Well-house.
Holy Well of St Gennys About 3 Metres South East of the South Churchyard Gate of the Church of St Gennys
- WRENN ID
- grey-baluster-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- Well-house
- OS grid reference
- SX 149 971
- Coordinates
- 50.74412, -4.62482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holy Well of St Gennys is a medieval well-house located about 3 metres south-east of the south churchyard gate of the Church of St Gennys. It is constructed from slatestone rubble and features a slate lintel. The well-house has a gable front and is set into the bank on the green, with an off-centre rectangular opening. Inside, there is a rough corbelled roof.
Local climate
Holy Well of St Gennys About 3 Metres South East of the South Churchyard Gate of the Church of St Gennys sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings