page_title: Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel
section_title: History and description
hierarchical_section_title: Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel / History and description
caption_attribution_description: English: Remains of Madron Well Chapel. Madron Well Chapel is over 100 metres from the 'actual' Madron Holy Well, but it contains a stone trough of running water in the corner which was also considered to be a holy well. In 1640 the cripple John Trelille came and bathed once a week for three weeks and was cured. In the past two years a lot has been done to tidy up and improve access to the chapel remains, which are out in the fields north of Madron village. The path there from the neat car parking area is smooth and well-surfaced, there is a new drystone wall and gate to the chapel area and the chapel building has been cleared of invading plants.
context_page_description: Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK.
  Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern and occupies the site of a much older Celtic structure. Madron Well is a spring 200 m to the west. Clouties, or offerings, can be seen on the path to the chapel, near the holy well.
context_section_description: In 1846 the building's measurements were published in The Archaeological Journal and the roofless building's internal measurements were 20 feet long by 10 feet wide, and the walls are 2 feet thick and 8 or 9 feet high.
  Measurements published in The Cornishman newspaper of 15 May 1879 gave the external length as 25 feet by 16 feet breadth and the walls 2 feet thick. The granite altar stone is 5’ 10’’ long, 2’ 7’’ wide and stands 2’ 10’’ above the floor. There is a depression of 9 by 8 inches to contain the portable mensa for the celebration of mass. The altar appears to date from the first-half or middle of the 12th century as do the stone seats and chancel. There is no evidence for any part of the structure being older but the existing structure does suggest an early Christian foundation. The building was partially destroyed by Major Ceely, during the English Civil War. A stream flows through the building and until the 18th-century the well and stream was the only source of water for Madron and Penzance. The stream's course dictates the unusual placing of the entrance which is on the north wall instead of the normal, west of centre.
  The chapel was first scheduled on 30 November 1926; it is currently scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and is considered to be of national importance.
  It is a classic site for the nationally scarce Cornish moneywort (Sibthorpia europaea), first reported here in 1824.
caption: The remains of Madron Well Chapel
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