Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Brigid's Well at Gwenhafdre Isaf
Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 15 July 2004
- Locality
- Swyddfynnon
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Ystrad Meurig
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28563, -3.94426
- Cadw reference
- 82958
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to the rear of the farmhouse at Gwenhafdre Isaf, some 900m to NW of Swyddfynnon.
History
Reputed holy well with scant recorded history. Repaired in late 1980s.
Exterior
Covered well, of dry stone construction, in beehive shape, set into bank, with low rectangular opening just above internal water level, with slab lintel.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually substantial corbelled well-chamber, carefully restored.
Nearby in the register
- St Ffraed's Well, CynhawdreHoly Wellunder 1 mi
- BrynmehefinDomesticunder 1 mi
- FfosAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Burnt Mound 230m NE of FfosBurnt Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.