Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Davids Cathedral Close: The Free School
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- School
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 15 January 1992
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88178, -5.26923
- SAM number
- PE442
- Cadw record number
- 685
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of a school. The remains of the Free School are incorporated into the churchyard wall on its west side. They consist of a vaulted undercroft extending 22m by 6½m within the churchyard where the rectangular footings of the upper storey can be seen. The Free School is first mentioned as a room built over the cathedral workshop in 1565.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation of education systems. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Retaining Wall to Churchyard from Deanery Gate to Ford opposite Bishops Palace, including Front WallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Retaining Wall on SE.Side of River Alun, from Ford to Bridge by Cloister HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Davids Cathedral Close: Close Wall and Sites of Former GatewaysWallunder 1 mi
- Churchyard with Memorials surrounding St. David's Cathedral (Memorials previously listed separately)Commemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.