Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St John's Well
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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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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
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.