Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffynnon Engan
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1998
- Locality
- Llanengan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81416, -4.53419
- Cadw reference
- 19608
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated down private path to rear of pair of houses behind Llanengan churchyard.
History
Holy well marked on O.S. as Ffynnon Engan but not noted as such by Francis Jones, who notes Ffynnon Fyw. Repaired and restored c1990.
Exterior
Holy well, roughly square basin with surround of stone slabs set deep within rubble stone retaining walls, partly dry-stone, partly stepped back.
Reason for designation
Holy well, associated with the patron saint of the church.
Nearby in the register
- Railed Enclosures in churchyard of Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to S of Church of St EnganReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The School HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.