In this case, a school that had been associated with the local Priory Church was administered by the (now Protestant) state instead.
The school provided free education to boys in the local area who passed an entrance examination.
The school was divided into two houses, Oppidan and Rustican, from the Latin for Town and Country.
A former pupil of the school, David Lewis, was the first Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
Amongst other distinguished pupils, well-known writer and critic Raymond Williams gave a fictionalised account of his time there in the novel "Border Country".