The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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St Winifred (650 - )

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29729?docPos=1 Relevant locations: N/A St Winifred's Well, Holywell
 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) Stone from St Winefride's well, stained with her holy blood.
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

1. A Picture of the three remarkable Steeples or Towers in Europe built purposely awry and so as they seem falling. Torre Pisana at Pisa, Torre Garisenda in Bononia, and that other in the City of Colein.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) To these may be added a Stone from St. Winifred's Well, with the indelible Spots of her Blood, but should have been placed (if not mislaid) as St. Hilda's Snakes amongst the natural Stones.