More information : (SP39695148) "? This is the 'Holy well". (1) Near Burton Dassett Church "is a 'holy well' with a well house built in 1840". (2) A well "situated in a stone chamber, inside which is the mutilated date 34, probably representing 1534". (3) The well is situated at SP 39845149. The inscription with the date of building is barely legible and the date within could not be found. (4) Holy Well Grade II Well house and well. 1840. Ironstone ashlar with moulded string course and cornice, and coped parapet. Flat roof. Grecian style. Central doorway, partly below ground level, has steps down to well. Shaped lintel with illegible inscription and roundels of carved flowers. Simplified pediment with flower roundel and antefixae. Stone-vaulted well chamber. (5,6)
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