Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Higgons Well
Uzmaston, Boulston and Slebech, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Uzmaston, Boulston and Slebech, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Holy Well (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Holy Well
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Uzmaston, Boulston and Slebech
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.79700, -4.95741
- SAM number
- PE430
- Cadw record number
- 2740
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a holy well, possessing religious significance and great repute during the medieval period from which it dates. It consists of rectangular vaulted building of millstone grit measuring 3m in length, 2.5m in width and 2m in height to the vault top. The building covers the well, a rectangular pool fed from a stream to the east which then exits through an arched entranceway on the west side of the building. Contiguous with the east gable are the ruined north and east walls of what was probably a small associated chapel.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of Christianity. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A holy well may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Higgon's WellReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Haroldstone Bridge (partly in Merlins Bridge community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Haroldston Bridge (partly in Haverfordwest community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Haroldston CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.