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Cowbridge school, c.1860. Cowbridge Grammar School was founded in 1608 by Sir John Stradling and owned by Jesus College, Oxford, from 1685 to 1918. Sir Leoline Jenkins, Secretary of State to Charles II, purchased the school and bequeathed it to Jesus College in his will. With the introduction of Intermediate schools in Wales following the Welsh ...
Collection created: 22/01/2020. 2803 Views. Schools / Education. Photographs and documents from the Cowbridge History Society digital archive relating to members of staff and pupils at the school....
The Free School, later known as the Cowbridge Grammar School, Cowbridge, Glamorgan, was founded in 1608, and moved to its present site in 1617. The patron of the school in its early days was Sir John Stradling (1563-1637).
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Mid C19 grammar school. Founded 1609, it moved to its present site in 1617. From 1685-1919, under the governership of Jesus College, Oxford. Rebuilt elegantly in 1847-52 to the design of the architect John Prichard, with an asymmetrical front elevation incorporating motifs in late C16 to early C17 style with the purpose of retaining "the existing c...
External walls faced in blue lias stone. Slate gabled roofs with tall ashlar stacks, square or octagonal with embattled coping ashlar dressings and coping to gables, transomed and mullioned windows with dripstones. Elevation to Church Street comprises two adjoining wings parallel to the street, the southern wing with higher roofline but with full-h...
Internally Old Assembly Hall, at NE on ground floor with ceiling divided into panels by stopped and chamfered beams in the local vernacular manner (cf 37 High Street, Cowbridge); Dining Room with fireplace and similarly deep chamfered beam; other contemporary fittings of good quality including four-centred doorways.
Graded II* as exceptional school building by important locally-based architect. The building is important both for its quality and setting and also for its place in the town’s history. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Cowbridge Grammar School. On his death in 1685, Sir Leoline bequeathed the school to Jesus College, who owned it until 1918. Construction commenced in 1848 of a new building, in the style of an Oxford College, in Church Road, Cowbridge. This housed three dormitories for boarders and has been converted into residential units since it became ...
Cowbridge Grammar School – various research A Cowbridge tailor named Toolye owned this site between Church, Church Street and the Town Walls at the turn of the seventeenth century: it was acquired by Sir Edward and Sir John Stradling of St Donats, who established the Free School here in 1608. The school and many of the Stradling lands in the
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