Did you work it out?
The painting is of a girl fetching water from Saint Mary’s Well in Jesmond, Newcastle.
The photograph on the left shows the well after a clearing away of the bushes (it get’s very overgrown).
It is well known that Jesmond was a place of pilgrimage in honour of Our Lady during the Middle Ages.
All that remains is a ruined chapel and this well.
The arch has ‘Gratia’ carved into the stone
It is part of the Angel Gabriel’s greeting to Mary:
‘Ave Gratia plena’
‘Hail, full of grace’
