Wynyard School

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| county = Hertfordshire

| country = United Kingdom

| schooltype = Boarding School

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{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}

Wynyard School was a boarding school in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

It was attended by C.S. Lewis (from September 1908 until June 1910) and his brother Warren.Lewis, C. S., They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963), p. 74 Lewis' vivid account of the miseries he suffered there does not seem to have been exaggerated. The discipline

was so severe, even by the standards of the time, that the family of one pupil took a High Court action for assault, which appears to have destroyed the school financially. “Nostalgia: Misery of writer's school”, url=https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/14304552.nostalgia-misery-of-writers-school/

Another attendee of the school was Arthur William Barton, who became Archbishop of Dublin. Lewis recalled that he and Barton attended the headmaster's funeral and shared the wish that they would never meet him again in any future life.

In 1947, long after the closure of the school, its building, Wynyard House, 99 Langley Road (now demolished) became the council offices of Watford Rural District.{{cite journal |title=The Municipal Year Book and Encyclopaedia of Local Government Administration |journal=Municipal Journal |date=1947 |page=1305 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRaXZodsS5wC |access-date=26 January 2022 |quote=Wynyard House}}