St Piran's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1962. Holy wellhouse.
St Piran's Well
- WRENN ID
- crooked-plaster-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1962
- Type
- Holy wellhouse
- Address
- St Piran's Well, Tintagel
- OS grid reference
- SX 076 891
- Coordinates
- 50.67059, -4.72327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Piran's Well is a holy wellhouse and hand pump located in Tintagel, with possible medieval origins, though it was partly rebuilt in the late 19th century or early 20th century. The structure features slate stone rubble walls and a pyramidal roof, topped with a granite cap and an iron cross. It has a roughly square shape and is built into the side of a slope, likely over a field spring. The front elevation has a low opening that has been altered, featuring a slate lintel and an outer segmental arch with an iron gate. The spring water is piped into a rectangular basin within the wellhouse before flowing into the stream below. There is a circa 19th-century iron hand pump located on the higher (south) side of the wellhouse at the rear. The dedication of the well is uncertain, but it is situated near the converted mission church of St Piran.
Local climate
St Piran's Well sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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