Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fynnon y Pant
St. Bride's Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1999
- Locality
- Heol y Mynydd
- Community
- St. Bride's Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46918, -3.61250
- Cadw reference
- 21794
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 on Ogmore Down, along a track leading down towards Ogmore.
History
Covered stone well, said to be C16. Possibly rebuilt later.
Exterior
Low, rubble stone cover slab roof, roughly rectangular plan with rounded corners. The entrance is to the S, within flanking walls. After 2 thresholds and a large step, the passage curves round to the E with 2 further steps leading down to the water level beneath and another stone slab lintel below external ground level.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual survival of an early stone well, which is well preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Evergreen CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Heol y Mynydd Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Stables at Ogmore FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ogmore FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.