Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Priory Well
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95181, -3.39066
- Cadw reference
- 6899
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To NE of Cathedral, at top of path known as The Groves.
History
Well of uncertain date.
Exterior
Rectangular basin with stone walls, high on west and north sides. Three small rectangular channels cut into northern wall with water issuing into the basin from channel with stone gutter. Steps descend to the basin of the well from the southern side; small area of cobbles to S.
Reason for designation
Listed as historic well with well-preserved character. Group Value with walls of The Groves.
Nearby in the register
- Walls bounding the path known as The GrovesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Brecon BreweryIndustrialunder 1 mi
- 80 The StruetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 81 The StruetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.