School for the training of church leaders, formed by Thomas Phillips on his farm at Pen-y-banc in 1810. Thomas Phillips was the first settled minister of Neuadd-Lwyd Chapel (NPRN: 7248), ordained in 1796. He farmed at Pen-y-banc and it was there he set up a school, originally for the teaching of his own children, but soon expanded to include young men from the Independent churches of Wales, training them for ministry within churches. The school was hugely successful and influential and the first two missionaries to Madagascar, through the London Missionary Society, Thomas Bevan and David Jones were trained at the school. The school, a single-storey, two roomed building was closed in the early 1900's and it is likely that this is the building denoted on the Ordnance Survey County Series mapping (Cardiganshire XXIV 4, 2nd edition, 1905) as Ty'r Ysgol, which now lies in ruins.

Photographed during aerial reconnaissance by RCAHMW on 24th April 2008.
L Osborne, 21st March 2012.