Record details
| ID: | MHG9030 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | St John the Baptist's Well, Foddety |
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| Grid Reference: | NH 51440 58850 |
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| Map Sheet: | NH55NW |
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| Civil Parish: | FODDERTY |
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| Geographical Area: | ROSS AND CROMARTY |
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Monument Types
- (Alternate) RAG WELL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1058 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOLY WELL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1058 AD to 1900 AD)
Other References/Statuses
- Historic Environment Record: MHG9030
- NMRS NUMLINK Reference: 12821
- NMRS Record Details: NH55NW8 ST JOHN THE BAPTIST'S WELL
- Non-Statutory Register (R)
- Old SMR Reference Number: NH55NW0008
Full description
The well lies beside a zig zag track up the hill, that according to a local resident was an old coffin road to the church at Fodderty - HAW 02/2005
NH55NW 8 5144 5885.
St John The Baptist's Well (NR)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
This spring bears name of John the Baptist - water of which is the purest kind, and till within the last 50 years was resorted to by sick people and maniacs, who always left on a neighbouring bush or tree a bit of coloured cloth or thread as a relic.
NSA 1845
A spring issuing from a stone-lined open hole, measuring 0.5m x 0.5m x 0.5m deep. The overflow runs freely down the N-facing slope in an illdefined course. There is no evidence of any religious use. The name and history of the well survive locally.
Visited by OS (J B) 25 April 1975
Sources and further reading
| --- | Text/Publication/Volume: NSA. 1845. The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy. Vol. 14, Ross-shire, 246. |
Related Monument/Building records
| MHG45128 | Related to: Corpse Road, Foddety (Monument) |
Related Investigations - none
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