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Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter
Well and Shelter

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A well-house with six timber posts with arched braces supporting a conical stone slate roof with ball finial. A circular pennant stone well-head is surrounded by radiating pennant stone paving. The well-house is identical to others set up by the Poynder family of Hartham Park, at Biddestone, Colerne and Hilmarton, Wiltshire. It was restored in 2002.
Title

Well and Shelter

Date

c.1900

Medium

wood & stone

Accession number

SN15_RD_S046

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Owner

Calne Without Parish Council

Custodian

Calne Without Parish Council

Work status

extant

Listing date

31/07/86

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at all times

Inscription description

etched into lintel of roof: Here quench your thirst and make in me / An emblem of true charity / Who while my Bounty bestow / Am neither heard nor seen to flow / Repaid by fresh supplies from Heaven / For every cup of water given

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Located at

Old Derry Hill, Derry Hill, Calne

SN11 9PH

Situated very near the junction of the A4 and A342.