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Westminster School
Westminster School Dean's Yard, The Sanctuary, Westminster, is another of the large public schools, being refunded by Queen Elizabeth in 1560. The dormitory of the Abbey is used as the schoolroom, whilst the dining. room is the old Abbots' Refectory.
A Greek comedy is performed here at Christmas by the boys, with prologue and epilogue on public events. Ben Jonson, Cowper, Sir Christopher Wren, George Herbert, Warren Hastings, and J. A. Froude, the historian, were all educated there. On the south side of Dean's Yard are the buildings of the Church House, in which the Houses of Convocation meet.
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