Wishing Well With Flanking Walls

WEYMOUTH

SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey 873-1/5/546 (West side) 12/12/53 Wishing Well, with flanking walls (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Upwey (West side) Wishing Well)

GV II

Spring head at source of the River Wey. Mid to late C19, rebuilt 1991. Rubble, some brickwork in reveals, stone slab roof, stone and concrete paving. A 2-bay recess built into the hillside, fronted with 2 flat 4-centred arches with rock-faced stone voussoirs, under a drip mould, and with a parapet with merlons above. The arches are carried on a central cast-iron column with circular shaft and base, and Early English leaf capital to an octagonal abacus. Above the arches is an inset stone panel with the letters C T I G in Gothic script. To the left the stonework dies into a retaining wall approx 5m long, and to the right as a boundary wall, approx 1.75m high and approx 10m long, but with a small recessed area, formerly occupied by an access gate from the adjoining lane. In front of this construction, in an area of paving, is a roughly circular well-head in grotto-like open-textured stone, approx 2.5m in diameter. HISTORICAL NOTE: this is referred to in the Torrington Diaries for 1782 as Upway Spring, a fashionable place of resort from Weymouth. It continues to attract pilgrims.

Listing NGR: SY6608385180