St Petrocks Well And Garden Pond About 35 Metres South West Of The Manor Hotel

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4/111 St Petrocks well and garden pond - about 35m south west of the Manor Hotel

GV II

Wellhouse and garden pond. Late C19, built for and probably designed by Sabine Baring-Gould. Granite ashlar wellhouse, garden pond with stone border. Small rectangular wellhouse has a corbelled granite roof gabled at ends, and a chamfered round-headed doorway below a simple round-headed niche with a stone cross in the gable. The interior has an additional small niche on the left hand wall. The external niche originally contained a statue of St Petrock. Baring-Gould, who rebuilt Lew House (now the Manor Hotel) in the late C19 may have been prompted to build the wellhouse by the presence of the holy well in the grounds of Morwenstow Vicarage, the home of the Reverend R.S. Hawker. Baring-Gould published a biography of Hawker in 1876. The rectangular fishpond is immediately in front of the wellhouse.

Listing NGR: SX4586486024