St James House, Monmouth

St James House is a grade II listed building in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

Recent residents of St James House have included boarding students from Monmouth School.

"There are some lovely spots in the town centre, none prettier than St James's Square, with its old war memorial in the shadow of a romantic-looking tree."

This is the description of St James Square (pictured) in Monmouth, Wales that appeared in The Telegraph of 25 February 2006.

The building is positioned on the north side of the square, across from 33 Whitecross Street (pictured), the site of archaeological excavation in 2009.

[2] St James House is considered to be a good representation of the burgage tenements that were common during Medieval times (link to glossary below).

[11] The kiln at St James House produced Welsh Borderland ceramics of the A7d type.

[14] In addition, a base sherd of Spanish ware excavated by Socket in 1956 at St James House was found to be Medieval, of the early 15th century.

[16] An article by Sion Morgan of the Western Mail which also ran on 8 Nov 2010 in Wales Online suggested that similar artefacts were found in St James Street as well.

[16] In 1891, Chippenham House, a grade II listed building at 102 Monnow Street, was home to surgeon Thomas Gilbert Prosser (1856–1932), a native of Monmouth.

[25] He passed his Anatomy and Physiology examinations of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in July 1903[26] and, by 1911, he was living at Chippenham House.

The first phase also included redevelopment of The Grange from a prep school to a sixth form boarding house, which also opened in September 2011.

View from south-west side of St James Square with Monmouth War Memorial , installed 1921, and Indian Bean Tree , planted c. 1900 and the Old Nag's Head beyond.
33 Whitecross Street (far left), St James House (right), and Public Library (centre)
1610 map of Monmouth by John Speed with East Gate (Dixton Gate) marked M, and cross