Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Deiniol's Well
Penally, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1970
- Locality
- Penally Village
- Community
- Penally
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66108, -4.72392
- Cadw reference
- 5999
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
A well located beside the lane at the W of the Abbey Hotel. It is immediately opposite the garage of the house named Corn Mwg.
Exterior
History: The church advowson grant of 1301 mentions a spring of St. Theliai. This is traditionally taken to be the present well referred to, and its proximity to the Abbey ruins supports the identification.
Description: The well is approximately circular, stone-lined, about 0.9 m in diameter. The superstructure is built in local stone rubble, patched in bricks. In front of it is a small paved area, slightly sunk below the level of the lane. The superstructure is open-fronted, in a horshoe-shape, about 2.5 m high, capped with a sloping stone and a lintel at the front.
Listed as an ancient well.
Reference: RCAHM Inventory (1925), p.292.
Nearby in the register
- Ruins in Grounds of Abbey HotelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Penally HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Abbey HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- The CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.