in the nineteenth century the school started to look like it is now. thanks to a resolution of the mineral rights issue being obtained through the court of chancery in 1842, the school was able to physically expand, with what is now the "quadrangle" being built, grindal house (formerly a hotel) purchased and the headmaster's residence being constructed. at the turn of the twentieth century the school chapel was built, along with what is now the art department and the school library, and the swimming baths. by the outbreak of the first world war the school had reached a peak of three hundred pupils, a figure which would not be seen again for some years.