diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9b07bd7f627..0a6912d2726 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ New Features
               Also includes ability to add your own SolrSpellChecker implementation that plugs in.
               See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent for more details
               (Shalin Shekhar Mangar, Bojan Smid, gsingers)
+53a. SOLR-679: Added accessor methods to Lucene based spell checkers (gsingers)
 
 54. SOLR-423: Added Request Handler close hook notification so that RequestHandlers can be notified when a core is closing.  (gsingers, ryan)
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/component/SpellCheckComponent.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/component/SpellCheckComponent.java
index adc36a8df8d..5fc2bc74022 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/component/SpellCheckComponent.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/component/SpellCheckComponent.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
@@ -347,6 +348,10 @@ public class SpellCheckComponent extends SearchComponent implements SolrCoreAwar
     }
   }
 
+  public Map<String, SolrSpellChecker> getSpellCheckers() {
+    return Collections.unmodifiableMap(spellCheckers);
+  }
+
   // ///////////////////////////////////////////
   // / SolrInfoMBean
   // //////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/AbstractLuceneSpellChecker.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/AbstractLuceneSpellChecker.java
index afd844483e2..9ac396e9a4e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/AbstractLuceneSpellChecker.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/AbstractLuceneSpellChecker.java
@@ -168,4 +168,42 @@ public abstract class AbstractLuceneSpellChecker extends SolrSpellChecker {
       index = new RAMDirectory();
     }
   }
+
+  /*
+  * @return the Accuracy used for the Spellchecker
+  * */
+  public float getAccuracy() {
+    return accuracy;
+  }
+
+  /*
+  * @return the Field used
+  *
+  * */
+  public String getField() {
+    return field;
+  }
+
+  /*
+  *
+  * @return the FieldType name.
+  * */
+  public String getFieldTypeName() {
+    return fieldTypeName;
+  }
+
+
+  /*
+  * @return the Index directory
+  * */
+  public String getIndexDir() {
+    return indexDir;
+  }
+
+  /*
+  * @return the location of the source
+  * */
+  public String getSourceLocation() {
+    return sourceLocation;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/FileBasedSpellChecker.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/FileBasedSpellChecker.java
index b463177feda..d617c78efe1 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/FileBasedSpellChecker.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/FileBasedSpellChecker.java
@@ -129,5 +129,8 @@ public class FileBasedSpellChecker extends AbstractLuceneSpellChecker {
       }
     }
   }
-  
+
+  public String getCharacterEncoding() {
+    return characterEncoding;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/IndexBasedSpellChecker.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/IndexBasedSpellChecker.java
index 787ba6fc3ae..a416dcbf490 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/IndexBasedSpellChecker.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/spelling/IndexBasedSpellChecker.java
@@ -108,4 +108,9 @@ public class IndexBasedSpellChecker extends AbstractLuceneSpellChecker {
     //reload the source
     initSourceReader();
   }
+
+
+  public float getThreshold() {
+    return threshold;
+  }
 }