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Saint John's Hospital School, Exeter

Photograph at the Saint John's Hospital School, Exeter black plaque

This statue of a blue boy stood in the courtyard of Saint John's hospital school founded on this site as a bluecoat school by the chamber of Exeter, A.D. 1636 in the dissolved mediaeval hospital of Saint John the Baptist. The school continued until 1931 in the new buildings erected in 1859 which were destroyed by enemy action on May 4th 1942

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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