Westminster School Dean's Yard, The Sanctuary, Westminster, is another of the large public schools, refounded by Queen Elizabeth in 1560. The dormitory of the Abbey is used as the schoolroom, whilst the dining. room is the old Abbots' Refectory.
Among others, Dido Armstrong, Nigel Lawson, Tony Benn, 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.