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The space now known as Ashburnham Garden was once the Refectory of the Monastery, with the north and east walls still standing. The lower part of the walls dates back to at least the 12th century, while the gothic windows above are 14th century additions.

The Bentham Room sits above the Old Gymnasium, which was given to the School in 1861 as a covered space for sports. The site was formerly part of a monks’ burial ground, when the Abbey was still a monastery, but the remains have long since been removed!

The site that is currently occupied by Boult and Boult Secondary was once the Great Kitchen of the Monastery, initially built in the 1060s. This was a large, freestanding building about 40-foot square, with walls several feet thick. Recent archaeological work has revealed layers of floors from four centuries of kitchens, each being built over the remains of the former when it was demolished or destroyed by fire.

The first house built on the site of Ashburnham House was constructed around 1380 as the Prior’s House of the Monastery and was only one room wide. Consequently the wall that divides the Camden Room from the rooms behind was initially an outside wall, accounting for its width. In the northwest corner, the course of a spiral staircase is visible.

Originally built around 1380, the first iteration of Ashburnham House was only one room wide. The wall that separates the Gibbon Room from the room at the front of the house was once an external wall, as can be seen from its width.

Lawrence Hall is a beautiful grand art deco building with original features including a vaulted ceiling and Edwardian turnstiles. It was constructed between 1925 and 1928 and was designed by the partnership of Easton and Robertson.

The Lecture Room sits in a part of the School that was once known as Turle’s House. This building initially belonged to the Abbey, but it was sold to the School under the terms of the Public School’s Act of 1968.

For much of its life, Ashburnham House was a domestic property, with remaining features of grand fireplaces and chandeliers indicating this former use. In the 17th century, the house was let to the Earls of Ashburnham who would go on to give it its surviving name. They re-modelled the property into the form it takes today.

Now named the Manoukian Music Centre after prominent philanthropist and businessman Vatche Manoukian, who funded the School’s refurbishment of the site for music education, this building began life as a drill hall. Intended for soldiers to meet, train, and store equipment, the Tufton Street drill hall was designed as the headquarters of the 23rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1899.

Millicent Fawcett Hall was initially built in 1927 and extended in the early 1930s, constructed for the London and National Society for Women’s Service (now the Fawcett Society) and named after their leader, Millicent Fawcet

School was originally the Monks’ Dormitory prior to the dissolution of the monasteries, but it gets its often confusing name from its use as the schoolroom for the entire school between 1599 and 1884.

Despite being in one of the busiest districts in London, Vincent Square feels peaceful and secluded. It is one of London's largest private open spaces available for hire.