Site type HOLY WELL
Canmore ID 45037
Site Number NS66NW 9
NGR NS 60376 65327
Council GLASGOW, CITY OF
Parish GLASGOW (CITY OF GLASGOW)
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District CITY OF GLASGOW
Former County LANARKSHIRE

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NS66NW 9 60376 65327


(NS 6037 6532) Lady Well (NR)
OS 25" map, (1968)

Lady Well, anciently a holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the E bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874.
When visited in 1951, the site of the well was as described above.
J R Walker 1883; Glasgow Evening News 1935; J M'Ure 1736; H Scott et al 1915-61; Visited by OS (WMJ) 5 September 1951.

Glasgow Evening News (1935) 'Encyclopedia of Glasgow', Glasgow Evening News
Page(s): No. 130 illust

M'Ure, J (1736) History of Glasgow,

Scott, H et al (eds.) (1915-61) Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, Revision Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol. 3, 406 Held at RCAHMS C.3.2.FES