E1, Raine Street, Raine's House
The motto above the door reads ‘Come in and learn your duty to God and man’. The scholar statues on the front are copies. The originals were taken by the school when it moved to Bethnal Green, in 1880 or 1885 (it's not clear).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This school was founded in what is now Raine Street by Henry Raine (1679 - 17...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
The sculptor is elsewhere logged as James Alexander Stevenson but the niche gives "Mirande", as best we can read. 2022: We were contacte...
The statue was sculpted by Graham Ibbeson.
The rescue of this sculpture is given in Indie London.
The sculptor's name is inscribed on the stone below the feet.
We've listed the statues left to right across the front of the building, with More all on his lonesome on the west (left) facade. The 1...
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