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Ffynnon Cawrdaf

A Grade II Listed Building in Llannor, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9111 / 52°54'39"N

Longitude: -4.3928 / 4°23'34"W

OS Eastings: 239194

OS Northings: 337530

OS Grid: SH391375

Mapcode National: GBR 5C.NMDF

Mapcode Global: WH44J.H3F4

Plus Code: 9C4QWJ64+CV

Entry Name: Ffynnon Cawrdaf

Listing Date: 8 February 1999

Last Amended: 8 February 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21323

Building Class: Health and Welfare

ID on this website: 300021323

Location: The well lies at the bottom of a field on the SE side of the dolerite ridge running parallel to the Pwllheli to Caernarfon Road.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Pwllheli

Community: Llannor

Community: Llannor

Locality: Abererch

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

The curative well is of great antiquity, named after St Cawrdaf, the C6 saintly brother of St Cadfarch, who was also associated with curative wells. The well house today is a structure of the mid-later C19 erected to cover and protect the basin. The waters were known and used until the C19 for the healing of all manner of ills.

Exterior

The well house is a small rectangular building built into the hillside with views over Criccieth Bay. It is approximately 2m x 1m wide internally, built of brindle brick with a slate roof and angled clayware ridges. It is open to the SE facing a stream to which the overflowing waters run.

Interior

The interior consists entirely of the rectangular basin. The walls have been limewashed.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of the few remaining well houses erected over a spring of great antiquity and significance to local people for its curative properties.

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  • II Clogwyn Tower
    The tower stands on the highest point of the dolerite ridge NE of Pwllheli and 1120m WNW of Abererch church.
  • II Hammel Range at Plas-gwyn
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  • II Cowhouse Range at Plas-gwyn
    Plas-gwyn stands approximately 700m S of Y Ffor. The cowhouse range lies W of the farmhouse, and forms the NW side of the square farmyard.
  • II Farm Building at rear of Plas-gwyn
    Plas-gwyn lies 700m S of Y Ffor. This farm building lies on a NW-SE axis behind the farmhouse.
  • II* Plas-gwyn
    Plas-gwyn lies off the main Pwllheli to Caernarfon road, approximately 700m S of Y Ffor crossroads.
  • II Picton Jones Monument
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  • II Capel Ebenezer
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