St Clether is a small village beside the River Inney with the parish
church standing some distance away. A little way on from the church
following the river stands what is considered Cornwall's most
beautifully situated Holy Well. There are over two hundred Holy Wells in
Cornwall (indeed there is one on the next village - Laneast), however
few can compere with the beauty and tranquillity of the well & chapel at
St Clether (pictured on the web page
http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk/stclether.html ).
Tucked away in complete
isolation and only reachable by a footpath across a moorland meadow, the
small chapel stands between the river and an outcrop of limestone rocks.
The spring bubbles up behind the chapel and then the water flows under
the altar and leaves the building to join the river below. Possibly
originally built in the 5th Century by a Welsh saint named St Clederus
the well was rebuilt in the 15th Century and restored in 1895.