St Mary's Chapel, Cefnmeiriadog
Nature warms to Spring's sun at St Mary's ruins at Cefn Meiriadiog between Henllan and St Asaph. The star shaped holy well for which St Mary's was known is shaped in the fashion of another well at St Winifride's, Holywell.
According to The Journal of Antiquities, the chapel and well were built in the 13th century, and rebuilt in 1500 along with the octagonal, star-shaped well-basin and attached cistern (bath).
About this time, Lady Margaret Beaufort (King Henry VII's mother), had built a chapel overlooking St Winifride's Well in Holywell, and there is some speculation that Lady Beaufort may have had an interest in St Mary's, too - the evident craftsmanship at St Mary's would have needed a benefactor of some means.
The Well's spring water flowed through along the inside western wall of the chapel
As was the way with so many Roman Catholic institutions of its time in Britain, St Mary's fell prey to the chaos of the Reformation.
St Mary's Chapel, Cefnmeiriadog
Nature warms to Spring's sun at St Mary's ruins at Cefn Meiriadiog between Henllan and St Asaph. The star shaped holy well for which St Mary's was known is shaped in the fashion of another well at St Winifride's, Holywell.
According to The Journal of Antiquities, the chapel and well were built in the 13th century, and rebuilt in 1500 along with the octagonal, star-shaped well-basin and attached cistern (bath).
About this time, Lady Margaret Beaufort (King Henry VII's mother), had built a chapel overlooking St Winifride's Well in Holywell, and there is some speculation that Lady Beaufort may have had an interest in St Mary's, too - the evident craftsmanship at St Mary's would have needed a benefactor of some means.
The Well's spring water flowed through along the inside western wall of the chapel
As was the way with so many Roman Catholic institutions of its time in Britain, St Mary's fell prey to the chaos of the Reformation.