View ENE of St Anne's Well in St Anne's churchyard, Whitstone, Cornwall, England, UK: a C15th well house, over an earlier holy well: heavily restored.
View ENE of St Anne's Well in St Anne's churchyard, Whitstone, Cornwall, England, UK: a C15th well house, over an earlier holy well, heavily restored around 1883. The holy well dug into the hillside is believed to date from 1309 but may be much older than that, possibly pre-Christian as are some other wells dedicated to St Anne. The water in the basin maintains a pretty constant level & is reputed never to have failed. The water was used for cures, & for baptisms in the church; the well was a place of pilgrimage & miracles. St Anne used to be commemorated on the morning & evening of July 26th with a procession & visit to the well. The entrance facade with a statue niche, carved flowers & alternating courses of granite & greenstone probably dates from the Victorian rebuilding. Inside is another statue niche & a projecting crudely carved face with push-hole eyes & a slash mouth. The gable cross is said to have come from a neighbouring church. The well is a Scheduled Monument & a Grade II Listed Building.
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Location: St Anne's Well, St Anne's Churchyard, Whitstone, Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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