Holy Well of St John About 125 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Well house.
Holy Well of St John About 125 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna
- WRENN ID
- dim-ashlar-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Well house
- OS grid reference
- SS 206 152
- Coordinates
- 50.90917, -4.55251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holy Well of St John, located about 125 metres southeast of the Church of St Morwenna, is a well house with medieval origins. It is constructed from dressed coursed stone and features a timber door. The well house has a rectangular shape and a steeply gabled roof with a flat ridge. The entrance, set in one of the gable ends, includes a stone lintel and jambs, along with a 19th-century timber door fitted with strap hinges. The structure is topped with granite capping and a small granite cross. The interior has not been inspected. The well has been documented since at least 1296 and was involved in a legal dispute in 1843 between Sir John Yarde Buller and the Reverend R S Hawker, who was the vicar of Morwenstow from 1835 to 1874. Hawker ultimately won ownership of the well. The well is depicted in the Hawker memorial window within the church, showing Hawker and his dog beside it.
Local climate
Holy Well of St John About 125 Metres South East of the Church of St Morwenna sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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