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- Christ’s Hospital, also known as ‘The Blue Coat School’, was established to care for and educate poor orphans from London, accepting both boys and girls.
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Christ's Hospital is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter, located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and the royal charter granted in 1553 (26 June, 7 Edw. VI).
In common with many, Christ’s Hospital was founded on the site of a former Catholic monastery which was dissolved during the Reformation. Christ’s Hospital, also known as ‘The Blue Coat School’, was established to care for and educate poor orphans from London, accepting both boys and girls.
CH, founded for the orphan children of poor Londoners, was given its Royal Charter in 1553 by Edward VI, as part of a foundation which included St Thomas’s Hospital (for the sick) and Bridewell Hospital (for idle vagabonds).
Dec 6, 2022 · Christ’s Hospital wasn’t a medical institution but rather a school, founded in 1552 by King Edward VI. Thanks to his father’s dissolution of the monasteries, London had lost a considerable proportion of the 16th century welfare state.
Originally there was a leper hospital – St Laurence’s Hospital – on the site in the early 13th century (1227) and the first Christ’s Hospital was founded there in 1312, and then re-founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1597 for “36 unmarried and maimed soldiers dwelling in the town”.