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Cowbridge Grammar School was one of the best-known schools in Wales until its closure in 1974. It was replaced by Cowbridge Comprehensive School . Founded in the 17th century by Sir John Stradling and refounded by Sir Leoline Jenkins , it had close links with Jesus College, Oxford .
Cowbridge Grammar School - staff and pupils | Peoples Collection Wales. Home. Cowbridge Grammar School - staff and pupils. Photographs and documents from the Cowbridge History Society digital archive relating to members of staff and pupils at the school. There are 82 items in this collection. At Cowbridge Grammar School 1949-1966' 457.
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
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 Comprehensive School is a secondary school in the town of Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales . The school has approximately 1,500 pupils, 1,200 of whom are in the secondary years and 300 in the sixth-form years studying for Welsh Baccalaureate, GCSEs and A-Levels .
Cowbridge Grammar School. This page summarises records created by this Organisation. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of...
