Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Well opposite St Cenydd's Church
Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangennith village, Swansea, Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton, designated on 3 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 March 2000
- Locality
- Llangennith village
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.60004, -4.27026
- Cadw reference
- 22880
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 246 Worms Head (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Across the road opposite the lychgate of St Cenydd's Church.
History
A well probably of greater age than St Cenydd's church. It is illustrated as it was before C19 alteration in J D Davies' History of West Gower. Davies' drawing shows a 'rude incised cross within a square' carved on a capstone. The capstone he regarded as early Christian, not later than the C8.
The well-head structure of two stone piers and a lintel plus upright copings was constructed c.1880 in response to a typhoid outbreak (very similar to a well at Reynoldston). The water pipe was covered in order to protect it from fouling by animals. The capstone in Davies' drawing is now missing, unless built into the later well-head.
Exterior
A public well consisting of a water channel between kerbstones, formed in the local conglomerate sandstone. The water now issues from two points, one of which is covered by a C19 well-head. C19 circular drain grating at the lower end of the channel.
Reason for designation
An ancient 'holy well' little altered since the Middle Ages, listed also for group value with St Cenydd's Church.
Nearby in the register
- St Cenydd's LychgateReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St CenyddReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Cennydd's Church Cross-shaftCross shaftunder 1 mi
- Barn attached to Church with Roadside RangeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.