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St Winefride's Well, Holywell, Flintshire

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Details

Accessibility

Limited free parking across the street. Ground surface is concrete (uneven in some places). Disability toilet and baby changing facilities, assistance dogs welcome. Limited lighting in some indoor areas. Steps and stairs with hand rails in some areas. Surfaces sometimes slippery. Regular seating provided (indoor and out). "Access to the chapel is down a flight of steps, along a short level path and then up a couple of steps to the main door. There is good level access."

Brief description

St Winefride's Well is an historic chapel and pilgrimage site just outside the centre of Holywell, with its own museum and resource library in two rooms on the first floor of the former Victorian Custodian’s House.

"Still a popular place of pilgrimage:

The holy well at St Winefride’s has been a place of pilgrimage since at least 1115. It is said to spring from the spot where 7th-century Welsh abbot St Beuno brought his niece Winefride back to life, though it’s likely that this story may actually have much older, pagan origins.

The chapel itself dates from the late 15th century. Set into the hillside, it’s a striking and unusual building, richly decorated and exceptionally well-built. On the bottom floor, the spring water bubbles up into a star-shaped basin beneath an elaborately vaulted ceiling before flowing out into a more recent outdoor pool, where pilgrims still visit to bathe in its waters with their claimed healing properties.

Reputedly the oldest continually visited pilgrim site in Britain, it’s on the route of the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way that travels along the Llŷn Peninsula to Bardsey Island, the legendary ‘Isle of 20,000 Saints’."

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Winefride%27s_Well

Address

St Winefride's Well,
Plessington House,
Greenfield St,
Holywell
CH8 7PN

Email

wellshrine@rcdwxm.org.uk

Phone

01352 713054

Website

https://www.stwinefridesshrine.org/

https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/st-winefrides-chapel-and-holy-well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Winefride%27s_Well

Directions

St Winefrede's Well is 0.4 miles south of Holywell town centre. There is limited free parking opposite the Well.

OS SO185762

Opening Times

The shrine is open year round (except Christmas and Boxing Day).

2024: "1 April – 30 September Daily 9am–5pm Last admission 30 minutes before closing Closed at 2pm on Good Friday

1 October – 31 March: Daily 10am–4pm Last admission 30 minutes before closing, Closed 25 and 26 December

No admission charge to visit the chapel. The chapel is locked. Please collect the key from the curator at the Visitor Centre. A returnable security deposit will be required."

The Holy well:

Category & Price:

Cadw Member - Join now Free

Adult £2.00

Family £3.00

Disabled and companion Free

Student and children under 16£1.00

Seniors (Aged 65+) £1.00"

Always check with the venue directly for up-to-date information including opening times and admission charges as these may be subject to change

Transport

St Winefrede's Well is 0.4 miles south from Holywell bus station, and 5.4 miles west of Flint station. There is a regular bus service around Holywell and Mostyn.

For further travel information in Wales please see: www.traveline.cymru/travel-info

Or call Traveline Cymru on 0800 464 0000

Amenities

Limited free car parking. Eating options in Holywell town (0.4 miles away), where there is also a library, cash point and local independent stores available for retail shopping.

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