More information : [SD 58552242] ST. HELEN'S WELLS [G.T.] (1)
St. Helen's Well, Brindle, "a stone-lined pit, about seven feet
square and four feet deep. On the southerly side of this pit,
a few feet from it, is another similar stone pit of about the
same size....an open stone channel is in situ, proved to carry
the overflow water from the southernmost pit.... (2)
In the rectory garden at Brindle [SD 52 SE 9] is a seven-sided
font of rough stone, 16" in diameter. It was recovered in the
village [of Brindle] in 1907, and may have belonged to St. Helen's
Well. The bowl is 12" wide and 7" deep, and there is no pedestal. (3)
Nothing of antiquity is now to be seen. The two wells are now
covered over with modern concrete slabs. Overflow water passes
out through an iron pipe.
The font, as described by Authority 3, is now within the church
at Brindle.
Within the bowl is standing a shaft of stone broken off at one
end, chamfered down from a base square in section at the other
end. The chamfered parts are floreated. This may be part of
the pedestal, or may be unassociated with this font. The vicar,
The Revd. Carpenter, can offer no information about it. (4)
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