Adam Siter, German Schoolmaster

Across the driveway, at the site of the present flagpole, once stood an early stone schoolhouse. In his 1915 “History of Old St. David’s Church,” Henry Pleasants tells us that it was built in 1723 and that it had “one of those large chimneys and open fireplaces peculiar to the schoolhouses of those days.” According to minutes of the Society for the Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts, Mr. Rowland Jones served as the first schoolmaster. Later, a German schoolmaster, Adam Siter, taught, a man “who was paralyzed and had to cut pens with one hand.” His students, both here at Radnor and, also at the Old Eagle School, endearingly called Siter “Old-step-and-go-fetch-it.”

In 1844 the school building was dismantled and the stone was used to build the Old Rectory (Journey’s End) across the road from the church.

Churchyard
Ancient Yard
Lot 139
Grave 5

Adam Siter served as Schoolmaster in the schoolhouse located across the drive

Journey’s End, built with stone from the schoolhouse