The story of Treffynnon, or
Holywell, goes back to the seventh century when a girl named Gwenfrewi
once lived there, now famous today as Saint Winefride. Holywell has been
a place of pilgrimage ever since, and is the only shrine in Britain that
can show an unbroken history of pilgrimage to the present day.
The Chapel was built over the well in about 1500 under the auspices of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, and has been called the finest surviving example in Britain of a Mediaeval Holy Well.
The Chapel was built over the well in about 1500 under the auspices of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, and has been called the finest surviving example in Britain of a Mediaeval Holy Well.
