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Charity school
Charity schools, sometimes called blue coat
schools, or simply the Blue School, were significant
in the history of education in England. They were
built and maintained in various parishes by the
voluntary contributions of the inhabitants to teach
poor children to read and write, and for other
necessary parts of education. They were usually
maintained by religious organisations, which
provided clothing and education to students freely or
at little charge. In most charity schools, children were
put out to trades, services, etc., by the same charitable
foundation. Some schools were more ambitious than
this and sent a few pupils on to university, as depicted
in the illustration. The Blue Coat School (in this case Christ's
Hospital, London) as drawn by Augustus Pugin
Charity schools began in London, and spread and Thomas Rowlandson for Rudolph
throughout most of the urban areas in England and Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11).
Wales. By 1710, the statistics for charity schools in The picture shows the Great Hall on St. Matthew's
and around London were as follows: number of Day, September 21st. Two senior boys destined
for scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge
schools, 88; boys taught, 2181; girls, 1221; boys put
Universities, known as Grecians, gave orations in
out to apprentices, 967; girls, 407. By the 19th
praise of the school, one in Latin and the other in
century, English elementary schools were
English.
predominantly charity schools.

The establishment, in the nineteenth-century, of a

public school system in New York meant that the role of the
charity school had come to an end.

Blue coat schools in order of

foundation

The Anniversary Meeting of the

Charity Children in the Cathedral of
St. Paul, 1826

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Date of
School Notes
Foundation
Christ's
Independent boarding school. The
Hospital, 1552
oldest surviving Bluecoat school.
Horsham
Housed in the Poor Priest's Hospital in
Blue Coat Boys' Canterbury, which later became Simon
1574
School Langton Grammar School for Boys and
Simon Langton Girl's Grammar School
Queen
Elizabeth's
1586 Also known as The City School
Hospital, Clifton,
Bristol
Leeds Charity School Blue Plaque
Norwich School Also known as the Anguish School,
for Poor Boys, 1617 founded by bequest by Thomas
Norwich Anguish, former mayor of the city.
Reading Blue Secondary school founded by Richard
1646
Coat School Aldworth.
Blue Coat
School, 1646 Founded by Richard Aldworth.
Basingstoke
Old Swinford
Hospital, 1667 State boarding school
Stourbridge
The King's
Hospital or Blue
1669
Coat School,
Dublin
Greenwich Blue
Coat Girls' 1700 A girls' charity school
School
St Mary's A primary school founded as Bluecoat
1705
School, Banbury School
York Bluecoat
1705
School
Leeds Charity [1]
1705
School
Nottingham
1706 A church school
Bluecoat School
Liverpool Blue
1708 A grammar school
Coat School
Nantwich Blue
<1712
Cap School
Tenison's
1714
School, Croydon
Coventry Blue
Coat Church of 1714 A comprehensive school
England School
Stanhope
1715 Merged with the Addey School in 1894
School
Birmingham
Blue Coat 1722 An independent junior prep school
School
Bluecoat 18th

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Primary School century

& Nursery,
Stamford,
Lincolnshire
The Blue Coat
1834
School, Oldham
The Blue Coat
1869 Closed in 1989.
School, Dudley
Bishop of
Hereford's 1973.
Bluecoat School
Pilton Bluecoat
C of E Primary A junior school in Devon
School

See also
Bluecoat school
Ragged school
History of education in England
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

References
1. Higginbotham, P., Leeds Charity School / St John's Home, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (htt
p://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LeedsCharity/), accessed 1 November 2018

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