Southam’s Grade II listed Holy Well, first recorded in 998, channels a mineral spring through carved stone gargoyles into the Stowe valley near Stratford-on-Avon.
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Exchange Ilford: The Town-Centre Mall on the High Road
Exchange Ilford, east London’s three-level High Road shopping mall, opened in 1991 and once held a granite floating sphere and a vanished wishing fountain.
St Ann’s Well, Buxton: A Spring Sheltered by Stone
St Ann’s Well in Buxton, Derbyshire is an ancient warm spring whose 1940 ashlar fountain marks waters revered since Roman times, when coins were cast for the gods.
St Margaret’s Well, Edinburgh: A Gothic Wellhouse in Holyrood Park
St Margaret’s Well, Edinburgh, is a 15th-century Gothic wellhouse moved stone by stone to Holyrood Park in 1860, with rib-vaulting and a holy spring.
St Peter’s Well, Houston: A Holy Well House in Renfrewshire
St Peter’s Well, Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland: a rare surviving holy well house, a tiny saddle-roofed freestone structure with a holy-water tradition.
Chapel of St Non: Clifftop Ruin and Holy Well, St Davids
The Chapel of St Non, a clifftop ruin near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, marks St David’s birthplace and shelters a healing holy well where pilgrims still cast coins.