Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE SCHOOL AND PRECINCTS The school — The library — College — Little Dean's Yard — The cloisters—Great Dean's Yard—' Green'—The Bishop's knocker —The Westminster Memorial. The school in my time consisted of one large room, length 96 feet by 34 feet, formerly the dormitory of the monks of the Monastery of Westminster, and assigned to the school on December 3, 1599, by a Chapter order. In this room all the forms except the Sixth were taught. It was built of solid squared stone, without plaster or wainscot; on the walls and on the jambs of the windows were cut, or painted in white on black ground, countless names of the old Westminsters of bygone days, some in letters 5 or 6 inches long, such as G. Legge, G. Parry, Dunlop, Bull, and others, some singly, some in pairs, some in long lists of comrades, six or eight together. The entrance to the school was from Little Dean's Yard, under a very handsome arch of white stone, surmounted by the arms of Queen Elizabeth, up three steps, then a flat, then up more steps, under another arch, which brought you under cover, round a corner to the left, up more steps, and then along a wide boardedpassage, with the library on your right, to the school doors. The arches and the walls on either side of the main flight of steps were of white, smooth, chiselled stone, and cut deeply into the stone were names and dates again, amongst which, on the left hand, may be seen two names on one stone : H. Saunders and F. Markham. This F. Markham is not the compiler of these Recollections, but General Frederick Markham, C.B., for many years Colonel of the 32nd Regiment, who commanded the Second Division in the Crimea. He was invalided home, and died on November 21, 1855. His name and our family arms are on the Westminster Memorial. I can well...