May you find what you seek here. The garden has many secluded corners, beautiful and tranquil at all seasons. Some are enclosed, others have open views to the Tor and Somerset levels. The well itself is thought to have been built by those of the Old Religion, the Druids, and that the water the gushes from it, reddish in colour and tasting of iron, has been claimed to have magical powers. The colour of the water and the taste according to legend is said to symbolise the iron nails that were used at the Crucifixion.
Visitors can still drink the water which is today believed to possess healing properties.
This belief can be traced back to the sixteenth-century. Another legend tells that Joseph hid the Holy Chalice or Holy Grail in a spring near to the Tor that feeds the Chalice Well. In recent years it has been found to be naturally radioactive. There is an entry fee to the Chalice Well, which is set in a beautiful secluded garden and is a popular place for meditation. It is quite natural then that a sacred vessel should have given rise to a spring or to be contained within it.