St. Govan's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 February 1996. Well.
St. Govan's Well
- WRENN ID
- grey-oriel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1996
- Type
- Well
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
About 25 m S of St Govan's chapel, reached by a flight of rough steps.
Famous together with St Govan's chapel for cures of lameness and eye disease. It was fed by a spring but had been dry for many years when described in 1925.
The well itself is a short shaft about 0.7 by 0.8 m. Wellhead building approximately square with an opening to the N side spanned by a stone lintel. Rough corbelled top sloping to S, E and W but rising to a rounded gable at N, very much restored.
Also a boulder retaining-wall at N side of the well.
Listed for historic interest and group value with St Govan's Chapel.
References: RCAHM Inventory (1925) 22 Fenton, Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire 181 1 ( 1903 ed) 415. F Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales ( 19 4) 208 Dyfed Arch. Trust S&M PRN 1268
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