The Chantry, And Adjacent Doorway

The Chantry is a chantry chapel that was later used as a school, dating from the late 14th century. It was re-erected on a new site in 1885. The building is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings, and features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables. It is a single-storey structure. The gable end facing Church Path has a deep plinth, square offset buttresses, and an angled string course with coping that does not have a finial. There is one 14th-century window with reticulated tracery and a label moulding. The north wing wall includes a pointed arch doorway from the 19th century. The north flank wall, which is obscured by the boundary wall, has three late 14th-century windows with cusped tracery. The interior has not been inspected. Originally, this medieval chantry chapel was located against the southwest corner of St. John's Church tower. By 1410, it was being used as a choir school and was refurbished in 1573 as the School House. It was dismantled in 1855 and re-erected at its current location as part of the original St. John's Sunday Schools, which it served until around 1880. After that, it was lent to the Roman Catholics until their church was completed around 1898. It subsequently became part of the Technical Institute and was disused in January 1983.