Bluecoat Hospital, Chester
(1700-present)

place and blue coat school

Aged 324

Commemorated on 1 plaque

Bluecoat Hospital. This was the site of the medieval hospital of St. John the Baptist. The present building dating from 1717 was a charity school founded by Bishop Stratford in 1700 to house and educate poor boys. Bluecoat School with it's distinctive uniform, continued until 1949.

Bluecoat Hospital, Northgate Street, Chester, United Kingdom where it sited