Ysgol y Berwyn

Ysgol y Berwyn is a high-school situated in the town of Bala, in Gwynedd, north Wales.

Edmund Meyricke founded a free grammar school at Bala, then in Merionethshire, in 1712.

Meyricke was Chancellor of St Davids Cathedral and diocese and therefore able to endow the new school with £15, and 5 acres (2 hectares) of land near the town, worth a rentcharge of £15 pa. Rev Thomas Charles (1755–1814), whose statue stands outside the school, was an advocate of foreign missionary work, proselytising the gospel with the British and Foreign Bible Society which he had founded.

The present building was constructed in 1851 and modelled very much on Jesus College, its financial and academic patron.

The Hall was replaced in 1964, when wooden panelling was erected to commemorate the dead of the Great War.

It was built in the mock Tudor Gothic style of slate quoins dressed with sandstone.

In 2001 the Victorian school building received Listing Status Grade 2 because it was a fine example of Tudor Gothic architecture of the mid-19th century, Neuadd-y-Cyfnod, as it is now known in Welsh, has a valuable forecourt, piers and railings preserved.