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 girl
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 girl
Unveiled by Harold Macmillan.
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
At the southern end of St Mary’s Terrace, beside the bike track, these statues are extremely difficult to photograph, Turing in particula...
This building was originally the School House, begun in 1821 by Sir William Rawlins. From Spitalfields Life 2014 we learn that: Many lay...
The bronze statue depicts the Queen as she would have looked when she started her reign, in 1837, and when the square was first laid out,...
