JIMENEZ DE MENDOZA
In this place was the old house-barracks. House donated by Bartolomé Jiménez de Mendoza (1685-1764), with a magnificent plan and site, capable of accommodating a considerable number of troops, who were heading from Malaga to Gibraltar, and who had Villa de Coín as their resting place. Prior to this donation, the troops had to stay in the houses of the town's inhabitants, with the inconvenience and expense that this could cause to the families.
Jiménez de Mendoza, belonged to one of the oldest families of the Coín nobility, descendant of the first Mayor of Coín after the conquest, Antón Ximénez. He was born in Coín in 1685, followed religious studies until he was ordained a priest, and was a priest in his native town until his death in 1764.
Shortly before his death, he founded a board of trustees and six chaplaincies before the notary of the town, which he dedicated to various purposes, one of them the endowment for a school of first letters and a chair of Grammar, where eighteen young people from this town could study , chosen among those with more modest economies.
He left enough assets so that such an ambitious and altruistic project could be carried out. He also arranged that the patrons in charge of the administration of these assets were the vicar of the town and the presbyter Fernando del Castillo Caro, his nephew. The allocation of this patronage served the purposes that its founder had foreseen until 1876. The year in which two schools for boys and one for girls already existed in the town with an economic endowment from the municipal budget.
The building was demolished in the 1980s, and later in 2003, the current Coín Town Hall was inaugurated.