There is a holy well, ruinous, at Halwell, one, probably of S.
On the heights commanding the river are Laneast, with old bench-ends, old glass, and a holy well, and S.
When he found that the pagans had a holy well, he contented himself with converting the well into a baptistery.
There is a very singular custom still observed in connection with a stream in place of a holy well at Gwennap.
There are purification rites, not especially under ecclesiastical sanction, at the holy fountain now dedicated to St. Anne, like the purification rites of the Eleusinian worshippers at the sea-shore and their visit to a holy well.
There is, in the churchyard wall, a Holy Well surmounted by a statue of the Saint.
There is a Holy Well with an early statue of the Saint above it.
One of the places visited should be Holy Well wood.
In folk-survivals the practice of rain-making is connected with sacred springs, and even now in rural France processions to shrines, usually connected with a holy well, are common in time of drought.
The Irish bile was a sacred tree, of great age, growing over a holy well or fort.
Two sacred fish still exist in a holy well at Nant Peris, and are replaced by others when they die, the dead fish being buried.
At the northern extremity of the plain are the ruins of the old Church of Donoughmore, half covered by the sand; and close by is a holy well where a 'patron' was formerly held on the last Sunday of July.
The first, to wit, Holy well, is much decayed, and marred with filthinesse laide there, for the heightening of the ground for garden plots.
Below the camp, between it and the church of Llanfihangel, is a holy well.
The first, to wit, Holy well, is much decayed and marred with filthiness purposely hid there, for the heightening of the ground for garden-plots.
This, there can be little doubt, must have at one time been regarded as a holy well.
A little headland, Halton, marks a spot where Indract had a chapel and a holy well.
Besides the church in which his remains were honoured, a holy well at Aberchirder still bears his name.
The Princess of Spain goes to-day to Saint Leofric’s tomb, to-morrow to Holy Well!
He knew him now, having seen him at Silver Cross thrice, maybe, since the finding of Holy Well.
And now Heaven blesseth both, and Holy Well, a thousand years from now, shall still be Holy Well!
Yesterday Montjoy had gone to Silver Cross and to Holy Well.
Or was Willenhall's Holy Well dedicated to St. Dominic, and came by grammatical error to be called St. Sunday?
Being thus from the earliest dawn of history within sacred precincts, there can be little doubt the Willenhall fountain enjoyed the reputation of a "Holy well" for many centuries.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holy well" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
