Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
5437
Building Number
Grade
I
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/02/1952
Date of Amendment
17/07/2002
Name of Property
The Holy Well and Cell
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llangoed
Town
Locality
Penmon
Easting
263054
Northing
380793
Street Side
Location
Set back, along a trackway, from the N side of a country road leading to the SE tip of the island at Black Point, or Trwyn Du, Penmon. The Holy Well and Cell are c50m NNE of the Priory Church of St Seiriol at Penmon.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C6 stone foundations of a monk's cell which probably mark the settlement of St Seiriol, founder of the religious community at Penmon. Close by the cell is an ancient well, now with a rectangular stone basin and forecourt. The well is now housed in a red brick and stone shelter; the upper part of which was probably built in the early C18.
Exterior
Sub rectangular limestone foundations of monks cell standing up to a height of c0.5m. To the NE of the cell is an ancient well, now with a rectangular flagged forecourt with rough limestone walling and crude stone benches along the E and W sides. Over the well is a small red brick and limestone building, built into the cliff face to the W. The building has a shallow gabled roof and a single doorway offset to the W with narrow vent slit to the E. The lower part of the walling is of stone and slightly battered, the brickwork is weathered and the building was once rendered, some remains.
Interior
Interior walls are rendered. The open doorway leads into a rectangular chamber, with a rectangular basin for the well set into the flagged stone floor. There are crude flagstone benches along the N and E walls and rectangular recesses in the walls above; one is said (by RCAHM) to have been partly blocked by a slate slab with a coronet above the initials and date B / R B 1710, though this is no longer present.
Reason for designation
Listed as the remains of an early Christian site with remains of a C6 monastic cell and ancient well; rare evidence for the form of early religious functions, and with considerable group value in its association with the Priory buildings of Penmon.
Ancient Monument No 1/1838/AN 062 (ANG) G.
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