Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Well house to St Gynidr's Well
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1996
- Locality
- Ffynnon Gynnydd
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06362, -3.22073
- Cadw reference
- 17202
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the E end of the hamlet of Ffynnon Gynnydd, at the corner of the road to Painscastle, set in the road verge.
History
St Cynidr was the son of Kehingeyr or Ceingeir, daughter of Brychan, and was probably the patron saint of Glasbury. A pre-Norman church associated with the holy well was probably located nearby and a field across the road opposite is known as Cae Ffynnon. Its former significance was still remembered as a wishing well up to 1949.
Nearby in the register
- Farm building at Pen-y-waun farmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cottage attached to Maesyronnen United Reformed ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Maesyronnen United Reformed ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Maesllwch CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.