Built in 1898 and designed by E. A. Johnson in Tudor-Gothic style. It replaced the Grammar School in St. Johns Street now the Masonic Lodge (qv) where it had been since its foundation in 1543. The school building was extended to the north in 1904, and were given three new classrooms, a gymnasium and a library in 1926 (not included in the listing). It was closed as a school in c1970 and was recently in use as a Drama Centre.

Built of coursed rock-faced red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar dressings, natural slate roofs with tile cresting and stone stacks. The main range runs north-south with the central entrance flanked by the hall on the south and two schoolrooms on the north, these all with ridges at right angles. Single storey, with the main rooms open to the roof.

M. Powel, RCAHMW. June 2024.

Source: Cadw Listing Summary ref.16470

Site Record

King Henry VIII Grammar School; Arts Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny