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Wishing Well with Flanking Walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Upwey and Broadwey, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6653 / 50°39'55"N

Longitude: -2.4812 / 2°28'52"W

OS Eastings: 366083

OS Northings: 85180

OS Grid: SY660851

Mapcode National: GBR PX.PVBD

Mapcode Global: FRA 57P9.WPQ

Plus Code: 9C2VMG89+4G

Entry Name: Wishing Well with Flanking Walls

Listing Date: 12 December 1953

Last Amended: 22 December 1997

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1272098

English Heritage Legacy ID: 467419

ID on this website: 101272098

Location: Upwey, Dorset, DT3

County: Dorset

Electoral Ward/Division: Upwey and Broadwey

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Upwey St Laurence

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description



WEYMOUTH

SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey
873-1/5/546 (West side)
12/12/53 Wishing Well, with flanking walls
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Upwey
(West side)
Wishing Well)

GV II

Spring head at source of the River Wey. Mid to late C19,
rebuilt 1991. Rubble, some brickwork in reveals, stone slab
roof, stone and concrete paving. A 2-bay recess built into the
hillside, fronted with 2 flat 4-centred arches with rock-faced
stone voussoirs, under a drip mould, and with a parapet with
merlons above.
The arches are carried on a central cast-iron column with
circular shaft and base, and Early English leaf capital to an
octagonal abacus. Above the arches is an inset stone panel
with the letters C T I G in Gothic script. To the left the
stonework dies into a retaining wall approx 5m long, and to
the right as a boundary wall, approx 1.75m high and approx 10m
long, but with a small recessed area, formerly occupied by an
access gate from the adjoining lane. In front of this
construction, in an area of paving, is a roughly circular
well-head in grotto-like open-textured stone, approx 2.5m in
diameter.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this is referred to in the Torrington Diaries
for 1782 as Upway Spring, a fashionable place of resort from
Weymouth. It continues to attract pilgrims.

Listing NGR: SY6608385180

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