Saint John's Hospital School, Exeter black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: 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

Saint John's Hospital School, established in Exeter in 1636 as a bluecoat school for poor children, provided education until 1931 and was a significant institution for local charitable education; its original buildings were destroyed during World War II.