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White Spring Temple

White Spring Temple in Glastonbury

At the White Spring Temple, housed in a candlelit Victorian reservoir at the base of the Tor, you encounter mineral-rich water rising from deep within the hill. Here visitors honour the spirits and goddesses of the land, give gratitude to the waters and, if they wish, step into the basins for a kind of modern baptism in this charged, echoing space.

Address: White Spring Temple, Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury BA6 8BJ, United Kingdom
How to Find:

Follow Well House Lane a short way; the White Spring building is the dark stone well‑house on the right at the foot of the Tor, opposite the Chalice Well gardens

Interesting Facts:
  • The White Spring temple
    The White Spring occupies a Victorian pump house that has been gradually transformed since the early 2000s into a candlelit water temple with shrines The White Spring is held as a community sacred space rather than a conventional tourist site or church. It is cared for and effectively “run” by a small group of volunteer custodians/companions, who look after the building, the shrines, and the water temple as an act of service, not as paid staff. A dedicated community-interest/legal structure exists in the background to hold the space and interface with authorities, but the spirit of the place is that it belongs to the community of keepers and pilgrims, not to a commercial owner
  • Twin springs, side by side
    The White Spring rises just across the lane from Chalice Well, yet one runs white with calcite and the other red with iron, from different depths under the Tor.
  • From reservoir to temple
    The current building is a Victorian well house, built in 1872 as a water reservoir during concerns about cholera, then abandoned when mineral deposits blocked the pipes. It has since been converted into a water temple, with pools and shrines inside
  • Calcite “petrifying” water
    The White Spring’s water is rich in calcium carbonate; older accounts say it could encrust twigs and leaves, a bit like the petrifying well at Knaresborough.
  • Modern living temple and Brigid shrine
    Inside, caretakers maintain it as a “living temple” with candlelight, flowing pools and multiple shrines, including one to Brigid, Celtic goddess and guardian of sacred springs, where a flame is kept burning

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