page_title: Warwick School
section_title: Modern buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Warwick School / Modern buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Warwick School's Warwick Hall
context_page_description: Warwick School is an independent school for boys, with boarding facilities, in Warwick, England. It is believed to be the oldest boys' public school in the world, and the fifth-oldest surviving school in England after King's School, Canterbury; King's School, Rochester; St Peter's School, York; and Wells Cathedral School. It is also believed to be the oldest surviving school founded by a woman, claiming to have been established by Æthelflæd of Mercia in 914 CE. Its headmasters have been members of the Headmaster and Headmistresses Conference since 1896.
context_section_description: Although the 1879 buildings are still in use, there have been many additions. All teaching now takes place in specialised departmental areas.
  The Junior School, opened in 1889, is next to the main school. Although it closed and re-opened several times in the first half of the twentieth century, it has been fully operational since 1938. In 2006 it catered for over 240 boys from 7 to 11 years of age, the majority of whom were expected to pass into the senior school.
  A new Science Centre, designed by Brown Matthews Architects Ltd., opened in June 2007. It houses biology, physics and chemistry laboratories. It was built on the site of the original 1879 sanatorium.
  The former main hall of the school, the Guy Nelson Hall, was built, following an appeal, between 1969 and 1970. It had seating for about 600 people, much less than the total size of the school in the 2000s and 2010s. Alderman Guy Nelson, after whom the hall is named, was a long-serving Chairman of Governors (1938–1963). The hall was demolished in 2015 and was replaced by a much larger one, Warwick Hall, which was opened in September 2016 by Michael Attenborough CBE.
  The school's theatre, the Bridge House Theatre, holds around 310 people. It was opened on 1 May 2000 by Dame Judi Dench and was designed by Michael Reardon Associates. It was intended from the start to be used both by the school and by local organisations in the town.
  In March 2013, the revamped and modernised Sports Pavilion, renamed the Halse Sports Pavilion after former headmaster Edward B. Halse (2002–2013), was opened in a ceremony led by British politician and former track and field athlete, Lord Coe. On 2 June 2014, as the climax of the Jubilee year, Charles, Prince of Wales visited the school and unveiled a commemorative plaque.
caption: Warwick Hall replaced the Guy Nelson Hall in 2016.
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