Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St John's Well
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 April 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 26 April 1977
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67485, -4.70503
- Cadw reference
- 6241
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)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into retaining wall by roadside outside Langstone on S side of St John's Hill.
History
C19 plaque set in stonework under small gable. John Leland, on his visit to Tenby in or about 1539, noted that the towns people obtained their water from a well near St John’s Hospital, that is, presumably from this well.
Exterior
Marble small plaque inscribed in black lead capitals: 'Under this stone is St John’s Well for many centuries the sole water supply of the inhabitants of Tenby'. Set in gabled surround of tooled grey limestone on top of rubble stone retaining wall.
Reason for designation
Included for historical reasons as marking the former St John's Well.
Nearby in the register
- HatherleyDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 The NortonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Norton LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- 24 The NortonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.