ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL

ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL, WELL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1140482
Date first listed:: 21-Aug-1964
List Entry Name:: ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL
Statutory Address:: ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL, WELL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1140482
Date first listed:: 21-Aug-1964
List Entry Name:: ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL, WELL LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST CLEER'S WELL AND WALL, WELL LANE

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Cleer
National Grid Reference:: SX2494868310

Details

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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.