Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trefnant School
Trefnant, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trefnant, Denbigh, Denbighshire, designated on 9 January 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 9 January 1998
- Locality
- Trefnant
- Town
- Denbigh
- Community
- Trefnant
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22384, -3.42331
- Cadw reference
- 19201
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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)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the South-western edge of the village, 60m NE of the church; set back from the road behind a metalled forecourt.
History
Village school built in 1860 at a cost of some £700 and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, architect of London; the land and a large proportion of the funding was given by Mr and Mrs Townsend Mainwaring of Galltfaenan Hall who had previously commissioned Scott to design the memmorial church in 1853; the neighbouring rectory completes the Scott parochial group. The school opened in February 1861.
Exterior
L-shaped school range in restrained Tudor-Gothic style, with adjoining master's house to rear. Of uncoursed, roughly-dressed limestone blocks with tooled ashlar dressings; slate roofs with overlapping copings to gable parapets and 3 metal louvre bases to roof sections, the louvres lost. Tall chimney with splayed sides, chamfered top and cornice band. The entrance front is of 3 bays, that to the L advanced and gabled and with a catslide roof extension continuing R over a flush, central porch. The gable has a pair of tall lancets with an oculus above, the whole contained within a large, flush ashlar arch; the original iron intersecting lozenge glazing survives to the oculus, otherwise plain modern glazing. Pointed-arched entrance, stepped-up and with modern panelled door; plain triangular overlight. The right-hand bay has a large square window with tripartite modern glazing; blocked lancet group window to R gable, as before; modern extensions adjoin here (NE). Three further large square windows to long L side (SW).
Interior
Plain modernised interiors with modern partitioning and false ceilings obscuring primary open roofs to main and lesser class-room halls.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a village school, designed as part of a parochial group by Sir Gilbert Scott, the renowned Victorian ecclesiastical architect.
Group value with the church, rectory and the school master's house, to which it is attached.
Nearby in the register
- Trefnant School HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Holy Trinity ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate at Holy Trinity ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Trefnant InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.