| Summary : The King's School was founded by Henry VIII and located in the buildings on the east side of Mint Yard. It was afterwards transferred to the Chapel of the Almonry on the south side of Mint Yard. The school currently occupies a number of buildings both old and modern throughout the Cathedral Precincts. Walpole House, Meister Omers, Luxmore are all boarding houses of the school. Mitchinsons, built 1980-1 is for day boys and the whole of the north side of Green Court comprising the bakehouse, brewhouse and granary of Christchurch Priory are now the classrooms of the school. The Great Hall of King's School was built 1955-7 and the library occupies the site of the Aula Nova. |