This early photograph is a view from the north bank of the River Usk at Brecon of the Llanfaes Bridge, with Christ College and Chapel beyond it.
The picture dates from around 1870, not long after the building of the new School House, and it is looking south towards the Brecon Beacons and Pen y Fan.

Christ College has been on the present site near the River Usk since 1541, when King Henry VIII dissolved an existing 300 year old monastery there and founded the school by royal charter.
The College buildings were in a very poor condition in the early Victorian years but were saved by a new Act of Parliament in 1855. This made possible investment in the new buildings seen in the photograph above, and gave the school a secure future.

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