View ENE of St Dyfnog's Well (Ffynnon Ddyfnog) W of Llanrhaeadr church, Denbighshire, UK, one of the most renowned holy wells of Medieval Wales.
View ENE of St Dyfnog's Well (Ffynnon Ddyfnog) W of Llanrhaeadr church, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, one of the most renowned holy wells in Wales attracting bardic poems of praise, numerous Medieval pilgrims & gifts to the church including the Jesse window of 1536. Said to cure skin diseases ("scabs and itch") & the pox. Still much resorted to in the C18th when the bath was roofed, paved with marble, provided with changing rooms & enclosed by an angular wall decorated with small human figures. In the C6th St Dyfnog established a cell near the waterfall on one of the streams which still feed the well. He did penance by standing under the falls wearing a hair shirt belted with an iron chain: Dyfnog's virtues gave the waters their miraculous healing powers. Limited excavations in September 2019, ahead of restoration work, found part of the wall of the outer enclosure at the E end of the pool, & hand-made bricks, ceramics & glass from a post-Medieval building on a platform above the W end of the pool. No Medieval remains were located, "leaving some doubt as to medieval use of the site."
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Location: St Dyfnog's Well, Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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