Description

ST CLEER WELL LANE, St Cleer
SX 26 NW
10/98 St Cleer's Well and wall
21.8.64
GV I
Holy well. Late C15; restored 1864. Granite ashlar and squared granite rubble.
Granite roof with gable end to front and rear.
Plan: The wall is rectangular, with open front and sides, and gable end to front and
rear; the well is inside the building. There is a low stone wall to the front and
sides.
Exterior: The well is a small single storey building on a hollow-chamfered stone
plinth. The front and each side have an arcade of 2 round arches, with polygonal
piers with roll-mouldings and moulded abaci. The front gable end has a central image
niche, with a pinnacle to each side and one to the apex of the gable. At the rear
there are 2 low round arches, with a triangular recess inside the buildng as a rere-
arch. On the outside of the rear wall is an image niche, with a pinnacle to each
side.
Interior: Granite floor, with the well to the rear. The roof is a stone vault, with
lateral ribs springing from an inner chamfered shaft with a plain abacus to the right
and left sides. The arches of the arcades are hollow-chamfered inside. The rear
wall has an image niche with segmental head to right and a small corbelled niche to
left. Along the front and sides, extending about 6 metres along the front and about
4 metres to each side, a granite wall about one metre high, with moulded coping.
Ancient monument No 192.

Listing NGR: SX2494868310

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529086

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)