Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffynnon Cawrdaf
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abererch, Pwllheli, Llannor, Gwynedd, designated on 8 February 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1999
- Locality
- Abererch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91107, -4.39280
- Cadw reference
- 21323
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The well lies at the bottom of a field on the SE side of the dolerite ridge running parallel to the Pwllheli to Caernarfon Road.
History
The curative well is of great antiquity, named after St Cawrdaf, the C6 saintly brother of St Cadfarch, who was also associated with curative wells. The well house today is a structure of the mid-later C19 erected to cover and protect the basin. The waters were known and used until the C19 for the healing of all manner of ills.
Exterior
The well house is a small rectangular building built into the hillside with views over Criccieth Bay. It is approximately 2m x 1m wide internally, built of brindle brick with a slate roof and angled clayware ridges. It is open to the SE facing a stream to which the overflowing waters run.
Interior
The interior consists entirely of the rectangular basin. The walls have been limewashed.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few remaining well houses erected over a spring of great antiquity and significance to local people for its curative properties.
Nearby in the register
- ArosfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Enclosed Hut Group at Clogwyn BachEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Clogwyn TowerGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Hammel Range at Plas-gwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.