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Latitude: 51.8957 / 51°53'44"N
Longitude: -3.05 / 3°3'0"W
OS Eastings: 327843
OS Northings: 222428
OS Grid: SO278224
Mapcode National: GBR F4.QN34
Mapcode Global: VH78T.2MY3
Plus Code: 9C3RVWWX+7X
Entry Name: St Issui's Well
Listing Date: 19 July 1963
Last Amended: 19 November 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6689
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300006689
Location: On E side of minor road and on N bank of river in a dingle SW of parish church.
County: Powys
Community: The Vale of Grwyney (Cwm Grwyne)
Community: The Vale of Grwyney
Locality: Partrishow
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Well
Probably the site of a pre Christian shrine which influenced the siting of the church here. It is traditionally associated with Issui, who was said to have had a cell nearby and who was canonised after his murder by a traveller. The water was also said to possess healing properties and to have attracted pilgrims. The present structure is probably a C18 or C19 rebuild.
Consisting of a shallow spring feeding a pool, with rubble stone walls on N, W and E sides. The wall on E side is integral with a field wall, the walls on N and W sides are built into a bank. In the N wall is a plain niche and an opening at the base where water flows into the small pool. A stone slab canopy covers the pool. The E and W walls also enclose flagstones on the S side.
Included for its historical associations with Partrishow and the early Celtic Church.
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