Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Allensbank Primary School, Infants
Gabalfa, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gabalfa, Cardiff, designated on 9 October 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 9 October 2001
- Locality
- Gabalfa
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Gabalfa
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50210, -3.18626
- Cadw reference
- 25794
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the north eastern side of Gabalfa near Cathays Cemetery.
History
Built in 1904 and designed by Veall and Sant as a variant of this firm's successful Lansdown Road designs. One of a series of schools built by the Cardiff School Board of which only four have retained their architectural character. This one is designed in "ebullient Jacobethan style" and is largely unaltered externally.
Exterior
The design replicates very closely the upper floor of the Junior block without the central bay. Newbridge sandstone rubble in thin courses, Bath stone dressings, the brick chimney stacks have been removed, and Welsh slate roofs. Single storey block in Flemish-Elizabethan style with large classroom windows. Balanced elevation to the street, four bays, with the outer bays recessed and the central bays with shaped Flemish gables. Each bay has a 4-light window with small panes above the transom and 2 over 2 pane sashes below. The centre windows have moulded tympana and a circular vent above in the gable. Ventilator on the transverse ridge behind. Hipped roofs to the outer bays. Gable with roundel and an additional classroom window on the right return. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as part of a well designed and almost unaltered late C19 Board School.
Nearby in the register
- School House at Allensbank Primary SchoolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Allensbank Primary School, JuniorsEducationunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Bishop Hedley in Cathays CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.