What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Chapel, St Oswald's Well as Chapel (medieval)(possible), Font (medieval), Holy Well (medieval), Spring (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
St Oswald's Well is associated with St Oswald, a 7th-century Northumbrian king and martyr, venerated in northern England and southern Scotland for his miracles and patronage of healing. Holy wells dedicated to him often feature rituals for physical and spiritual healing, reflecting early Christian and pre-Christian traditions of water as a purifying and curative element.
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Photo: Gordon Brown · CC BY-SA 2.0