4255

 

II  

Designated  

19/10/1971  

11/02/1998  

Ffynnon Fair and Bridge  

 

Gwynedd  

Botwnnog  

Pwllheli  

Bryncroes  

222670  

331407  

 

Beside water meadows, some 50m S of the cross-roads in the centre of Bryncroes village.  

Domestic  

 

An ancient spring reputed to have been used as a holy well in medieval times, possibly by monks on the pilgrimage route to Bardsey Island.  

A mortared wall of squared rubble stone with entrance to E, encloses a space some 2.5m square. Inside this enclosure the stone paving descends in two tiered stages forming a pavement around the perimeter of the pool, which measures some 1.2m square. A run-off channel carries surplus water under the boundary wall to the nearby brook. To the N of the well enclosure is a small bridge. Two water channels cut diagonally across the roadway. Large crudely-worked boulder forms centre support with rectangular openings with slab lintels on either side. Both sides of roadway flanked by low stone wall with raked copings, which curves at the approaches and continues at SW end to join well enclosure to S.  

 

Included as a well-preserved, solidly constructed holy well which, with the adjoining bridge, forms a prominent feature in the centre of Bryncroes village.