Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — St. Chad’s Well Rediscovered. [ARTICLE]

St. Chad’s Well Rediscovered.

Another interesting link with the past is brought to light by the recent discovery of the exact spot where liee St. Chad’s Well, once a famous Chalybeate spring in King’s Cross. In the eighteenth century people came here to drink the waters, which were supposed to be especially useful in cases of dropsy, scrofula and liver complaints. __ Gradually, like all fashionable spas, St. Chad’s was deserted, and residential houses, then warehouses, were erected on the site of the well. A few days ago the builders In laying the foundations for a new structure in Gray’s Inn road discovered an arch some 20 feet underground, and this has been identified as forming part of the old well. From the arch to a spot 30 yards awny stretched the waters once famous for their medicinal properties. It has been ascertalned that the spring still exists, and it would be decidedly worth while to nave the water analyzed and find whether it still retains its pristine virtues.—London Daily News.