Blue Coat School, Basingstoke
(1659-1879)

place and blue coat school

Closed aged c. 220

Commemorated on 1 plaque

The Blue Coat Boy. This statue marks the site of Basingstoke's Blue Coat School 1659-1879. It was cast from an original located at Reading's Blue Coat School. Both were founded by Richard Aldworth a governor & benefactor of Christ's Hospital (the original Blue Coast School)

New Street, Basingstoke, United Kingdom where it sited