Holy Well or Holy Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Spring.

Holy Well or Holy Lake

WRENN ID
tired-landing-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
Spring
Address
Holy Well or Holy Lake, Stoke Sub Hamdon
OS grid reference
ST 480 174
Coordinates
50.95427, -2.7407
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holy Well, also known as Holy Lake, is a spring located in Stoke Sub Hamdon. The date of its construction is uncertain. It features near-ashlar ham stone and consists of a small stone trough at ground level, measuring about 400 mm square, with a stone shelf above it. The backing wall has two small raked buttresses on either side of the bowl, and water flows from an iron spout in the back wall. There is no known reason for the name or the history of this spring.

Local climate

Holy Well or Holy Lake receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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