Westminster School, Public boarding school in Westminster, London, England

Westminster School is a private school in the precincts of Westminster Abbey in Westminster, London. Its buildings include Ashburnham House, now a library and lecture room, and College Hall, still used as the dining hall; parts of the site date back to the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon abbey. A tall pale grey stone tower with pointed windows, a pierced parapet and a steep pyramidal roof rises at the centre, with a green copper roof to the right and a low red brick range with round-arched windows to the left.

A school existed at Westminster by the 1340s, with records kept in the abbey's Muniment Room, and parts of its buildings date to the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon abbey. Henry VIII kept it alive by royal charter in 1540 as the Royal College of St. Peter with forty King's Scholars paid from the royal purse. Elizabeth I refounded it in 1560 with statutes selecting forty King's Scholars from boys who had attended for a year, and appointed William Camden as Head Master.

The school's Latin play, performed in the original language, is staged each year and is one of its oldest customs. Pupils also learn Latin and Greek, the core of the curriculum up School until the 19th century. The school motto, Dat Deus Incrementum, comes from 1 Corinthians 3:6.

Visitors can see the courtyards and some areas during special events or through guided tours that need advance booking. The site lies close to the abbey and is within walking distance from Parliament and Westminster Bridge in a few minutes.

At the coronation of Charles II in 1661, Westminster pupils shouted the traditional acclamation before anyone else, a right tied to the school's royal foundation. The library keeps the white satin "Majesty Scutcheon" snatched from Cromwell's coffin in 1658 by the schoolboy Robert Uvedale and returned by his family three centuries later.