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Kirkgunzeon Parish Church, St Winning's Well

Holy Well (early Medieval)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kirkgunzeon Parish Church, St Winning's Well as Holy Well (early Medieval). 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 Winning's Well is associated with St Winnian (or St Winning), an early Christian saint linked to the spread of Christianity in southern Scotland and northern England during the 7th century. The well was traditionally visited for its healing properties, particularly for curing eye ailments and skin conditions, and was likely a site of pilgrimage and local veneration in the medieval period.

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