Holy Well is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Well.
Holy Well
- WRENN ID
- dusted-minaret-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Well
- Address
- Holy Well, Wembdon
- OS grid reference
- ST 282 377
- Coordinates
- 51.13484, -3.02744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Well is a well and housing structure with medieval origins, located on Wembdon Hill. A stone plaque on the north gable is inscribed: "HOLY WELL, RESTORED BY JOHN B HAMNELL 1857." The housing is made of red sandstone rubble and is open to the south gable. It features a tile roof adorned with fish-tail bands and a large cruciform stone finial on the north gable. The excavated floor level is accessed by a rubble step, and the floor is laid with quarry tiles. At the center is a circular well lined with rubble, which has a false bottom made of a stone slab pierced with small holes to allow water to flow through. There is a 20th-century metal cover over the well, and a semi-circular rubble bench with a quarry-tiled capping is located on the north side. The well is situated over a spring.
Local climate
Holy Well receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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