Record Details
| MonUID: | MST12211 |
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| HER Number: | 50592 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Nun's Well, Courtbanks Covert, Cannock Wood |
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Summary
A rock-cut well of uncertain date, although a brick built arch over the top of it is thought to be no earlier than 15th century in date. Lies within the Scheduled area of Courtbanks Covert moated site and bloomery.
Monument Type(s):
- WELL (MEDIEVAL to Tudor - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
Associated Events:
- EST2638 - An aerial survey of Cannock Chase (including Lidar and aerial photography) as part of the Chase through Time HLF project). (Ref: 7/2018)
Protected Status:
- Scheduled Monument 1003750: Moated site and bloomery in Courtbanks Covert
Full description
Well, now dry. The owner states that the water from the well was used as a cure for sore eyes within his lifetime. <1>
Rock cut and arched over with brick. Undated, but arch cannot be earlier than 15th century. No nunnery known here, but the name probably from situation on property granted by Henry II to Farewell Abbey. <2>
Well: Nun's Well is a spring rising in a chamber cut into the rock. The sides of this are built up with stone blocks and it is arched over with brickwork of probable 16th century date. An overflow to the south joins with Radmore Brook. <3>
Site now destroyed. <not sourced>
A well cut out of the rock and arched over with brick. The arch cannot be earlier than the 15th century. It is called 'Nun's well' (although no nunnery is known here), the name probably deriving from the fact that the well is situated upon property granted by Henry II to the Abbey of Farewell. (SB, 13-Nov-2003) <2>
Nun's Well is a spring rising in a chamber, 3.0 metres long and ?1.2 metres wide and high, which has been cut into the rock. The sides of the chamber are built up with stone blocks and it is arched over with 'Tudor' type brick work (probably 16th century. An overflow to the south joins the Redmoor Brook; a large oak grows over its mouth. (SB, 13-Nov-2003) <3>
"Nun's Well" is marked on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey 6 Inch map dated 1887. (SB, 13-Nov-2003) <4>
The location of the well is clearly marked on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, dating from 1884. (SB, 13-Nov-2003) <5>
A poor copy of a photograph shows Nun's Well from the south-west. (13-Nov-2003) <6>
A tree is growing at the site of the well, but the lidar shows a depression at this location. This is set within a straight sided scarp forming three sides of a square, the ground slightly falling away on all but the western side. (EAC 21-Jul-2017) <7>
Sources and further reading
| <1> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 01 SW - 9 (D.J.C. - Ordnance Survey Field Inspector - 20-Aug-1974). |
| <2> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 01 SW - 9 ('The Midland Antiquary' Volume 3 (1884) pages 61-63 (by W. H. Duignan)). |
| <3> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 01 SW - 9 (W.C. Woodhouse - Ordnance Survey Field Inspector - 05-May-1958). |
| <4> | SST3601 - Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1875-1890. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6" Maps. Plastic film. 6" to the mile. Staffordshire Sheet LI. N.E.. |
| <5> | SST3716 - Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1870s-1880s. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 25" Maps. Paper. 25" to a mile. Staffordshire Sheet LI (8). |
| <6> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 01 SW - 9 (Ordnance Survey Photograph Reference Number AO/58/54/1). |
| <7> | SST4944 - Digital Archive: Fugro BV. 2016. Chase through Time Lidar. |
Related records
| 50591 | Related to: Redmoor Abbey / Radmoor Abbey, Courtbanks Covert, Cannock Wood (Monument) |
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