Healing well and bathing pool outside the lower chapel with star-shaped inner bath in the crypt of St Winifred's Chapel, Holywell, Wales.
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Jean Williamson / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
TWAY6EFile size:
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4913 x 3764 px | 41.6 x 31.9 cm | 16.4 x 12.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
13 May 1992Location:
St Winifred's Well, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UkMore information:
View south east at outer pool and exterior of lower chapel with star-shaped inner bath in the crypt of St Winifred's Chapel, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK: Spring water enters the inner basin before flowing out to the exterior bathing pool. Tradition dates first appearance of spring to 660AD when princess Gwenfrewi (Winifred) was beheaded by spurned suitor Caradoc. Water sprang from the ground where her head landed: St Beuno replaced her head on her body and brought Gwenfrewi back to life. The present two-storey chapel was built circa 1500 for Lady Magaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and wife of Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby. Celtic in origin, the holy well has been a popular place of pigrimage & healing since at least 1115. In 1917 mining operations severed the original stream & another source was diverted to the bathing pool & well: cures continue to this day.