Gate Piers And Holy Well 120 Metres To South East Of Trescobel

SX 07 NW ST KEW ST KEW 5/223 Gate-piers and holy well 120m to - south east of Trescobel GV II Gate piers with flanking walls and adjoining holy well house. Circa 1890's when the holy well was rebuilt by Rev. N.T. Every, Vicar of St. Kew. Ashlar walls and piers; the well house is stone rubble and brick. Entrance gateway with pair of gate-piers and flanking quadrant walls with terminal piers. The holy well is partly incorporated into and behind the left hand wall. Pair of ashlar gate-piers, square-on-plan with pyramidal granite caps. Flanking ashlar quadrant walls with granite coping, terminating in square piers also with granite pyramidal caps. The well house is behind the left hand wall; of stone rubble with a brick basket arch opening with a plank door and a timber cross above. The well opening is square-on-plan. The gateway is situated at the main entrance to the former Rectory and the Vicar Rev. N.T. Every rebuilt the holy well in his garden partly incorporating it into the entrance gateway. Lane-Davies, A Holy Wells of Cornwall Rp 1970 Meyrick, J A pilgrims guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, 1982

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