{{Short description|Well in Harrogate, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Use British English|date=December 2024}} thumb|right|The wellhead, in 2021 '''St John's Well''' is a spa water well in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.
The well was discovered in about 1631 by Dr Michael Stanhope, who wrote about it in ''Cures without Care''. It was the second to be identified in the area, after the Tewit Well.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hembry |first1=Phyllis May |title=The English Spa, 1560-1815 |date=1990 |publisher=Athlone Press |isbn=9780838633915}}</ref> It was initially known as the "Old Spaw", and later as the "Sweet Spa". A toilet block was constructed by 1656, then a wellhead was built in 1788 by Alexander Wedderburn.<ref name="chrystal">{{cite book |last1=Chrystal |first1=Paul |last2=Crossley |first2=Simon |title=Harrogate Through Time |date=2011 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=9781445628554}}</ref> In about 1842, this was replaced by a new wellhead, designed by Isaac Shutt.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hembry |first1=Phyllis May |title=British Spas from 1815 to the Present |date=1997 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=9780838637487}}</ref> The well closed in 1973.<ref name="chrystal" /> The wellhead has been grade II* listed since 1949.<ref name="nhle">{{NHLE |desc=St John's Well |num=1281537 |access-date=2 December 2024}}</ref>
The wellhead is a pavilion in gritstone, with pilasters, a cornice and a pierced parapet. There is an octagonal plan, with three windows and a doorway alternating with plain panelled sides. The doorway and the windows are round-arched with an architrave and a pediment, the doorway pediment on console brackets.<ref name="nhle" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Leach |first=Peter |title=Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North |year=2009 |series=The Buildings of England |place=New Haven and London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-12665-5 |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner}}</ref>
==See also== *Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) *Listed buildings in Harrogate (Stray Ward)
==References== {{commons category|St John's Well, Harrogate}} {{reflist}}
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Category:Buildings and structures in Harrogate Category:Tourist attractions in Harrogate Category:Springs of England Category:Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category:Water wells in England Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1842