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This well house was built by the Rev. Sabine Baring -Gould, probably to his own design, and possibly incorporating stones from the original holy well behind the church. It is Grade2 listed and described in the register as being of "granite ashlar,a small rectangular building with a corbelled roof with gabled ends and a chamfered round headed doorway below a simple niche with a stone cross in the gable. Inside it has a small niche in the left hand wall which originally contained a statue of St Petroc". It is now set out as a feature of the ornamental gardens which surround the grounds of the hotel housed in Baring-Gould's former home and water runs from it into ornamental ponds. It does make a fine picture and must be one of the best kept well sites in Devon.The Rev. Sabine Baring -Gould (1834-1924) was an authority on and collector of stories about early saints and folklore and the idea of a holy well in the grounds of his house would have held great appeal for him.
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