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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689610
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689610
NO43SW 9 4006 3050
(NO 4008 3051) St Francis's Well (NR) (Covered) (NAT)
OS 1:500 plan, Dundee, Forfarshire, (1871)
St Francis's Well is covered by the outside wall of the Public Seminary and is near the NW corner. A spring formerly issued from this spot.
Name Book 1858; Information from J Scott, town architect and J Jack, surveyor and assessor to OS, c. 1858.
St Francis's Well, sometimes called the Friars' Well, stood on the site of James' United Presbyterian Church, Bell Street, and was named from the Franciscan friars, having been used to supply the monastery (NO4SW 11). After the dispersion of the friars, this well had fallen into a ruinous condition, and in 1562-3 the council ordered it to be repaired. In 1591, it had again fallen into disrepair, and the council decided to close it.
A C Lamb 1895.
Well (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1920).
NO 4006 3050. The OS site of this well is erroneous. Wood's plan (J Wood, Plan of Dundee, 1821) agrees with Lamb's siting and J D Boyd (curator, Dundee Museum) also agrees. A modern office block now occupies the site.
Visited by OS (J L D), 17 April 1958.
