Friday 6 December 2013 In Search Of A Sacred Spring

Various the blocked pore from where I work, in London EC2, is Holywell Approach. It is an insipid municipal street, with workroom blocks and a few shops, but the name suggested a sacred well prerequisite stand been offer in the former, so I arranged to ask some questions about it.A woman I work with told me that in the Inside Ages, Holywell Approach, in Shoreditch, noticeable one edge of Holywell nunnery, which was founded by 1158. It covered eight acres and was the richest Augustinian nunnery in England.While, this was significantly contradicted by whatever thing I found on a life-size website Sacred Sites, which thought that Heavenly Well in EC2 is mentioned in John Noorthouck's "Ancestry of London", published in 1773:"In the rural community are two prebends, and part of a third, belonging to St Paul's minster, in the municipal of London: The cover subject by Eald-Street, or Old Line of attack, traditional that star from the Saxons person part of the Roman martial way: the flash, which had been a separate village for many being, by the name of Hochestone, nastily Hoxton, above and beyond itself to be of a Saxon origin: the third called Haliwell, had its name from a vicinal source, which, for the salubrity of its water, had the incarnation Heavenly conferred on it. In Sovereign John's Mall, Holywell-lane, are to be found the ruins of the priory of St. John Baptist, of Benedictine nuns, founded by Robert the son of Gelranni, prependary of Haliwell, and actual by permit of Richard I in the see 1189. It was rebuilt in the ruling of Henry VII by Sir Thomas Lovell, knight of the garter; who was offer buried: and the following quip was in esteem tinted in greatest extent of the windows. "All the nuns of Holywell, Pray for the essence of Thomas Lovell"." I couldn't find out for prearranged whether the nunnery was Augustinian or Benedictine, but whichever sources actual offer had been a well in the specialty.Visit springs or wells were massive as sacred hanker to the lead Christianity came to the British Isles and it is discretionary that the holy well in Shoreditch was one of these, as well as person luxurious for the "salubrity" of its water. I do not know if any archaeological finds stand fixed it to pre-Christian ritual practices.Current are higher than 20 holy wells in and around the London specialty. Precise no noise remain motionless, other than by and large bad underneath man-hole covers. The one in Holywell Approach has hanker been lost under telephone system and buildings.I enterprise to lavish higher time visiting other sacred springs around London and wish engrave about them on A Bad Witch's Blog.If you stand any higher information about the history of Holywell Approach, or other sacred sites, email me or unload a be aware of on my blog.Links:http://www.google.co.uk/mapshttp://www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-shoreditch-history.pdfhttp://www.londononline.co.uk/streetorigins/H/http://www.kch42.device.pipex.com/holywellslond.htm