Bleujowa Fenten Sen Kler | St Cleer Well Flowering
Help celebrate the wonder of water at St Cleer Holy Well and Cross this Spring.
Location: St Cleer Holy Well and Cross, St Cleer, Liskeard, PL14 5DX – What3Words: ///dart.regulates.releases
Watch this historic site be blessed in both Cornish and English and learn a little about its fascinating story. Then raise your voices for a rousing rendition of Trelawney before being treated to traditional Cornish dancing from the children from St Cleer Primary Academy.
On the day
The schoolchildren will parade to the monument from St Cleer Primary Academy at 10.15am.
Traditional Cornish music and dance will be led by Merv and Alison Davey.
Parking
Parking is available on the roads around the village.
About the site
Situated within a small walled enclosure in St Cleer, the site consists of a holy well and wayside cross thought to date from the early 16th century. It is the only example of a well house with an open porch-like design in Cornwall and the mouldings on the building’s capitals are also unusual.
Before the Reformation, it may have been used to display the image or relics of a saint for pilgrims visiting the site, who would have had access to water from the spring covered by the building.
The well house had become a ruin by about 1700, but it was restored in 1864-5 as a memorial to a long-serving vicar of St Cleer, the Reverend John Jope.
