St Cleer's Well and Wall is a Grade I listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. A {"restored 1864"} Well, wall.

St Cleer's Well and Wall

WRENN ID
solemn-quoin-stoat
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 August 1964
Type
Well, wall
Period
{"restored 1864"}
Address
St Cleer's Well and Wall, Well Lane
OS grid reference
SX 249 683
Coordinates
50.48837, -4.46913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Cleer's Well is a holy well located on St Cleer Well Lane, dating from the late 15th century and restored in 1864. It is constructed from granite ashlar and squared granite rubble, featuring a granite roof with gable ends at both the front and rear.

The structure is a small single-storey building set on a hollow-chamfered stone plinth. It has a rectangular plan with an open front and sides. The front and each side display an arcade of two round arches supported by polygonal piers with roll-mouldings and moulded abaci. The front gable end includes a central image niche flanked by pinnacles on either side and one at the apex of the gable. At the rear, there are two low round arches, and inside the building, a triangular recess serves as a rere-arch. An image niche with pinnacles is also present on the outside of the rear wall.

Inside, the well is located at the rear on a granite floor. The roof features a stone vault with lateral ribs that spring from inner chamfered shafts, each with a plain abacus on the right and left sides. The arches of the arcades are hollow-chamfered on the inside. The rear wall has an image niche with a segmental head to the right and a small corbelled niche to the left. Surrounding the front and sides is a granite wall about one metre high, extending approximately six metres along the front and four metres to each side, topped with moulded coping.

Local climate

St Cleer's Well and Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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