Well water running through the chapel at St Clether, supercharged by the relics of St Cledarus was used for healing and baptisms. Offerings were place

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Well water running through the chapel at St Clether, supercharged by the relics of St Cledarus was used for healing and baptisms. Offerings were placed in the hatch above this outflow to be collected by a priest in return for holy water. Tradition says St Clether himself founded a hermitage on this site in the C6th, beside a never-failing spring in the Inny Valley.

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Location: St Cledarus' Well Chapel, St Clether, Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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