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Dean's Yard, Westminster, Comprises Most of The Remaining Precincts of The Historically Greater
Dean's Yard, Westminster, Comprises Most of The Remaining Precincts of The Historically Greater
scope of the monastery or abbey of Westminster, not occupied by its buildings. It is known to
members of Westminster School as Green (referred to without an article). It is a large gated
quadrangle, closed to public traffic, chiefly a green upon which the pupils have the long-use
acquired exclusive rights to sit, read and to play games such as football (they have some claim to
have invented the modern game). For some centuries until a point in the early seventeenth century it
was a third of its present size, since to the south stood the Queen's Scholars' dormitory, which was
in monastic times the granary. Its stones support Church House.
Adjoining buildings