HOLY WELLS.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sm,—Reading your most interesting article on the "National Trust " has led me to ask you if something could not be done to awaken interest in and preserve the ancient chapels and holy wells of Cornwall. Unfortunately, hardly anyone who visits the county cares anything for such things; they are disappear- ing, and are most difficult to find. Quite lately the site of one holy well in the neighbourhood of Newquay has been turned into a quarry. In 1917 I was at this spot, and saw the over- grown hollow where the masonry had been, also the carved and shaped granite stones that had formed the arch lying in the stream close by. They are nowhere to be seen now. The large basin or trough has long been in the yard of a neighbouring farm. My plan is to look on the one-inch ordnance map in which chapels and wells are marked, and then to make diligent search. On asking if anyone else ever visits these mostly long- forgotten treasures, I am invariably told " No."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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