St Winefride's Well Shrine

A very peaceful place to visit. It has amazing architecture, and amazing to find out people come from all over the world to bath here.

It is only £1 to enter, there is a little museum room and shop, they have toilets and a changing room for bathers.

We parked in the carpark across the road which was free but very small. There may have been more parking further up the hill but we didn't go up there.

Stopped at the Well Shrine on the way. Admission was £1 per adult and read about the history and that many pilgrims visit every year and we saw the healing well that we had read about which opens 3 certain times a day. A religious Catholic historic place to visit.

Tranquil place and can be a quick visit. You can also drink the water and at certain times or go inside the small pool.

What an amazing place & just £1.
There is a shop, toilets,a few parking spaces at the church or just across the road & not far from the small town.
Well worth a visit.

An interesting historical site with free car parking across the road and large laybys adjacent to the shrine.

The staff were helpful and if you ask for the key you can visit the chapel above the well.

The small museum provide detailed information about the history of the site and about St. Winefride.

There's also a shop where you can buy religious and other souveniers.

The "safety barriers" around the pool did ruin the ambience

Well-presented (no pun intended) shrine in a good state of repair given its age, location and visitor numbers. Open throughout the year, low entrance fee. Open-air full body immersion pool. Toilets but no changing facilities on site. Chlorinated but not heated, 10C.

Beautiful location for the Welsh equivalent of Lourdes or Fatima. This holy well and shrine is dedicated to St Winefride and is a lovely place to visit, whether you are religious or not. It has a visitor centre, shop, toilets and carpark. It costs an adult £1 to visit.

A lovely old shrine, that's both attractive and unusual, plus a very unusual story behind it.
The well is believed to have healing powers and the site, a place of pilgrimage for 1300 years is known as the Lourdes of Wales.
The chapel was built over the well in 1490 and has a camber-beam roof and beautifully carved corbels.
It's said in 12th-century hagiography, Saint Winifred is a virgin martyr, beheaded by Caradoc, a local prince, after she spurned his advances. A spring rose from the ground at the spot where her head fell and she was later restored to life by her uncle, Saint Beuno. But true or not, or maybe even a slightly exaggerated tale of the healing properties of this spring water - Don't try this at home...
For the price of just £2 admission to see the well and enter this site of pilgrimage, coming away with a feeling of inner peace is worth every penny.