St David's Spring - Davidstow, Cornwall - Spring Houses on Waymarking.com

"The Holy Well is located in the boggy hollow in a field owned by Church Town Farm to the northeast of Dasvidstow Church. The Well is approached over a stone stile next to the Church Hall, access proving difficult because of the boggy nature of the land and considerable poaching by grazing cattle. The Well has been through two restorations, firstly in 1871 by Michael Williams (and the archway to the door bears testimony to that) and secondly in 1996 by Fred Saunders of St Breward under the auspices of, and financed by, the Cornwall Archaelogical Unit. It is currently in an overgrown state and can prove difficult to access.

Constructed in regular granite blocks, some of which it is said, from a ruined chapel in Lesnewth, at the time of the 1871 restoration. The facade is four metres long and one and a half metres at its highest point. The stones around the doorway are characteristic of the medieval period and the base of each of the flanking stones show the beginnings of what may be the original decoration. A new oak doorway, but with the original iron fittings, was hung at the 1996 restoration.

In their book `Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall` published in 1894, L. and M. Quiller-Couch describe the Holy Well at Davidstow as being more uncommon than beautiful. The water has no peculiar value ascribed to it neither is there any legend or tradition belonging to the Well. The water from the Well. after suitable treatment, is used in the making of the now famous Davidstow Cheese."

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