St Ninian's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Well.
St Ninian's Well
- WRENN ID
- eternal-slate-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Well
- Address
- St Ninian's Well, St. Cuthbert Without
- OS grid reference
- NY 422 520
- Coordinates
- 54.85949, -2.90092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Ninian's Well is a wellhead built in the 1830s to 1840s by Sarah Losh. It is made of dressed sandstone and features a square flagged trough. The wellhead has a round-headed arch that is adorned with incised roll moulding, decorated with crosses and lozenges. This site marks the location of an ancient well dedicated to St Ninian, which was rebuilt by Sarah Losh. The original inscription is no longer visible.
Local climate
St Ninian's Well sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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