page_title: Llantwit Major
section_title: Knolles Place
hierarchical_section_title: Llantwit Major / Notable landmarks / Listed buildings / Knolles Place
caption_attribution_description: English: 'The Old School', Llantwit Major 'The Old School' now functions as a support for local council activities and provides facilities such as diverse as Citizen's Advice Bureau, nursery school, slimmer's club as well as housing the Council chamber.
context_page_description: Llantwit Major is a town and community in Wales. Situated on the Bristol Channel coast, it is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan, with the third largest population after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge. Llantwit Major is 4 ¹⁄₂ miles from Cowbridge, 9 miles from Bridgend, 10 miles from Barry, and 15 miles from Cardiff. The community had a population of 9,486 in 2011.
  Llanilltud Fawr is named for the Llan of Saint Illtud, the Llan was home to the Monastery of Illtud and the College known as Côr Tewdws. Llantwit would grow into one of the most esteemed centres of Christian culture in the Celtic world. At its peak it attracted over 2000 students, including princes, numerous eminent clergymen and revered saints. The institutions were destroyed by the raiding Vikings in 987, but the monastery was rebuilt by the Normans in 1111 and continued to be a centre of learning until it was disbanded in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The 13th-century St Illtyd's Church, built near the ancient monastery, is a Grade I listed building and one of the oldest parish churches in Wales.
context_section_description: According to the blue plaque on the building (also known as "The Old School") (51.408413°N 3.487469°W), it was built around 1450 by John Raglan (Herbert) and was then owned by Robert Raglan, from a family who had significant power in the area at the time and held many local administrative posts as stewards and priests. In the 17th century it became a vicarage for Stephen Slugg and functioned as a boarding school for primary school children between 1874 and 1975.
caption: The Old School
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