Statue

St Mary Rotherhithe - charity boy

Site: St Mary Rotherhithe Free School and watch-house (4 memorials)

SE16, St Marychurch Street, 70

The watch-house is the low building to the right of the one with the scholar statues.  the blue plaque you can just see to the left is for Reverend Nicholas Richards and has its own entry.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Rotherhithe - charity boy

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Charity scholars

Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...

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St Mary Rotherhithe Free School

Charity school. Co-founded by Robert Bell and Peter Hill for the education of...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Mary Rotherhithe - charity boy

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St Mary Rotherhithe Free School

St Mary Rotherhithe Free School

{On the plaque between the two charity scholars:} St Mary Rotherhithe free sc...

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St Mary Rotherhithe watch-house

St Mary Rotherhithe watch-house

St My Rotherhithe watch-house 1821.

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