Yeovil Grammar School

It probably dated from the early fourteenth century, and may have formed part of an earlier church on the site.

[7] By December of that year, Langdon was advertising for young gentlemen to be taken as private grammar school pupils.

This cost £1,200 and incorporated some features of the original building, including two chimneypieces and three niches.

[1][10] In May 1859, Henry Monk, then aged twenty-four and of Harrow Weald, was appointed as schoolmaster of the Yeovil Charity School, replacing the Rev.

"[11] Monk’s salary was £93 a year, with permission to take private pupils,[2] the purpose of this being to encourage a better class of schoolmaster.

[1] In January 1860, Monk married Elizabeth Henrietta Hawkins (who was 'Superannuated from the War Department') at All Saints Church, Harrow Weald.

[2] One was used to teach thirty-four boys, the sons of working-class fathers; of these, ten were on the Nowes Foundation and received two suits of clothing a year and £5 towards buying an apprenticeship when they left the school at the age of about thirteen.

However, beneficiaries of the educational charity at Preston, Alvington, and Brympton were against the loss of the clothing and apprenticeship payments,[2] to which they were entitled under the 18th-century Will of Dr John Nowes.

[1] In 1877 the Charity Commissioners decided that in any event they had no powers under the Endowed Schools Act 1869 to promote the plan.

[12] The income from the Nowes endowments was at first conserved, pending the way forward for that charity being found.

[2] The charity school closed in 1884, and Monk continued to use the Chantry as a schoolroom until 1889, paying rent for it.