Description

SX 48 NE LEW TRENCHARD LEW TRENCHARD

4/111 St Petrocks well and garden pond
- about 35m south west of the Manor
Hotel

GV II

Wellhouse and garden pond. Late C19, built for and probably designed by Sabine
Baring-Gould. Granite ashlar wellhouse, garden pond with stone border. Small
rectangular wellhouse has a corbelled granite roof gabled at ends, and a chamfered
round-headed doorway below a simple round-headed niche with a stone cross in the
gable.
The interior has an additional small niche on the left hand wall. The external
niche originally contained a statue of St Petrock. Baring-Gould, who rebuilt Lew
House (now the Manor Hotel) in the late C19 may have been prompted to build the
wellhouse by the presence of the holy well in the grounds of Morwenstow Vicarage, the
home of the Reverend R.S. Hawker. Baring-Gould published a biography of Hawker in
1876. The rectangular fishpond is immediately in front of the wellhouse.

Listing NGR: SX4586486024

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457532

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)