Education

Christ College, Brecon

Christ College, Brecon
Powys County Archives

Christ College was founded in its modern form in 1853, although the school site had been in occupation since the thirteenth century as a Dominican friary, and then as a prebendal college with a school. When the modern public school was established, the Christ College scheme of 1855 set out that the Headmaster should be a clerk in holy orders. Although this stipulation was changed in 1880, the headmaster at the time of the 1891 census was still an ordained minister, as were all headmasters until 1956:

Rev Bayfield left the school in 1895. He was an enthusiastic recruiter of new pupils for the school, and cast his net fairly widely, as can be seen from the census return for the boys boarding there at the time.

Plan of Christ College, Brecon
Powys County Archives

As well as Rev Bayfield there were two other teachers who lived at the school in 1891 - one in the college itself and one in the hostel. In addition they had matrons and various servants to assist them.