Schools and the Chapel
The former Church school in the village street is on the site of a cottage that Lewis John had bequeathed in 1696 as an almshouse. It served until Narberth Workhouse was erected at Allensbank in 1838. Churchgoers stabled their horses here, and the school met upstairs.
Bryn Siôn Chapel
Rector Richard Lewis had it rebuilt in its present form (apart from the kitchen) in 1854. The local Congregationalists promptly built their own school (now the vestry) and a chapel at Bryn Sion. Lewis, later Bishop of Llandaff, is said to have refused to pass the chapel when going to his brother's house at Henllan, Llanddewi, preferring to use the short cut behind what is now the Old Manse. This is still called Bishop's Lane.
Bryn Sion became the Board School in 1870. The chapel was rebuilt nine years later, and in 1895 the school moved to new premises up the hill, where it continued until 1973. One head teacher's son, born here in 1914, rose to be Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge and a popular broadcaster - Dr. Glyn Daniel. The Church school closed in 1905.
