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Caerleon Endowed School

Field	Value
name	The Endowed School
type	School
location	Caerleon, Newport, Wales
image	Caerleon Endowed School.JPG
caption	Front view of school
locmapin	Wales Newport
map_caption	Location in Newport
coordinates
gbgridref	ST 33885 90583
designation1	Grade II*
designation1_offname	The Endowed School
designation1_date	11 July 1951
designation1_number	2984
designation1_free1name	Community
designation1_free1value	Caerleon
designation2_free2name	Principal area
designation2_free2value	Newport
built	1724

Caerleon Endowed School, (also known as The Endowed School, Caerleon, Caerleon Charity School, Williams Charity School and Caerleon Junior School), in Caerleon, Newport, dates from 1724. At that point, the house was a junior school that was funded by a bequest from Charles Williams. The school became part of the state education system in 1948 under the Education Act 1944. The school was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1951.

The bequest was for "30 boys and 20 girls of the poorer sort", but the trustees reduced this to 20 boys and 10 girls. From 1724 to 1948 the school had only nine headmasters. The left and right wings of the buildings included houses for the school master and school mistress respectively.

John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, describes the school as "educational bounty on an exceptional scale for the 18th century". The layout (a half H) become a model for later schools in Wales.

References

Sources

{{cite book | author-link = John Newman (architectural historian)

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{{National Historic Assets of Wales

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