Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Church School
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 August 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88293, -5.26663
- Cadw reference
- 12657
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on west side of road at top of slope overlooking Cathedral Close.
History
1873 former National or Church School, now school canteen.
Exterior
Gothic style. Purple rubble stone with yellow limestone ashlar dressings and roof of small green slates. Single storey with coped gables and N end steeply gabled bellcote. Ashlar chamfered plinth, chamfered eaves course, quoins and mullion and transom windows. East side has two three-light windows and two external chimney breasts with ashlar circular shafts. Original shouldered-headed doorway to left is obscured by modern addition at SE angle. S end has one 3-light window and cusped lancet vent in gable. W side has three similar 2-light windows. North end has modern lean-to addition, but cusped lancet vent in gable.
Rubble stone wall with two sets of gatepiers to road.
Nearby in the register
- 8 Quickwell HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Quickwell HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10&12 Quickwell HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Quickwell HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.