Inverkeithing, Chapel Place, 'st John's Well'
Holy Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inverkeithing, Chapel Place, 'st John's Well'
Classification Holy Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 50993
Site Number NT18SW 7
NGR NT 1305 8314
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Inverkeithing
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SW 7 1305 8314.
(NT 1305 8314) St John's Well (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
St John's Well, which formerly existed at the E end of the Leek Yard, on the W side of Chapel Place, Inverkeithing, apparently owed its name to the adjoining Temple possessions of the Knights of St John.
W Stephen 1921
St John's Well, Inverkeithing. Listed as a Holy Well.
M Barrett 1914
There are no structural remains of this well, the site lies immediately S of a small public lavatory on the W side of the Chapel Place.
Visited by OS (AC) 12 March 1959
Publication Account (1981)
An early well existed on the east side of the church in Heriot Street at a point identified -by Ordnance Survey investigators as NT 1308 8299 (Ordnance Survey Record Cards, reference NT 18 SW 6). This well was referred to in a charter of 1219, but it is not identified until a Sasine of 1588 where it is called Eriot's Well, a form which later became St. Heriot's Well (Stephen, 1921, 229). The well is still intact, although covered up with a large flagstone. Another early well, St. John's Well (NT 1305 8314) is located on the west side of Chapel Place (Ordnance Survey Record Cards, NT 18 SW 7).
Information from ‘Historic Inverkeithing: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).
