Ancestry UK

Charity Schools

A separate page gives background information on Charity Schools.

This is not a comprehensive list of Charity Schools but focuses on those which provided residential accommodation for at least some of their pupils.

England

Berkshire

Cheshire

  • Blue Coat School, Upper Northgate, Chester

Devon

  • Blue School /St John's Hospital, Exeter
  • Hospital of Orphans' Aid, 10 Regent Street, Plymouth
  • Hospital of Orphans' Aid, Catherine Street, Plymouth

Essex

  • Bancroft's School, Woodford Green

Gloucestershire

  • Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Clifton, Bristol
  • Colston's Hospital, St Augustine's Back, Bristol
  • Red Maid's School, Bristol
  • Blue Coat Hospital / Sir Thomas Rich's School, Barton Street, Gloucester
  • Blue Coat Hospital / Sir Thomas Rich's School, Eastgate Street, Gloucester

Hampshire

  • Blue Coat School, Basingstoke

Kent

  • Poor Priest's Hospital School /St Margaret's Blue Coat School, 1 Nunnery Road, Canterbury

Lancashire

Lincolnshire

  • Blue Coat School, Lincoln

London (E/EC Postal Areas)

  • Sir John Carr's School, Aldgate E1
  • St Andrew's Parochial School, Holborn EC1
  • Bancroft's Hospital Schools, Mile End Road, Mile End E1
  • Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street, Newgate EC1
  • St Sepulchre Within Charity School, Newgate EC1
  • Raine's School, Raine Street (formerly Charles Street), Wapping E1

London (N/NW Postal Areas)

  • Orphan Working School, City Road, Shoreditch N1

London (SE/SW Postal Areas)

  • Blue Coat School for Girls, Green Lane, Greenwich SE10
  • Blue Coat School for Girls, London Street (now Greenwich High Road), Greenwich SE10
  • Blue Coat School for Girls, Point Hill, Greenwich SE10
  • Sir William Boreman's / Green Coat School, Straightsmouth, Greenwich SE10
  • Emmanuel Hospital School / Brown Coat School, Buckingham Gate, Westminster SW1
  • St Paul Covent Garden School, Cleveland Street, Westminster W1
  • St Margaret's Hospital / Green Coat School, Green Coat Place, Westminster SW1
  • St Martin-in-the Fields Parochial Charity School, Hemming's Row, Westminster SW1

London (W/WC Postal Areas)

Northamptonshire

  • Girls' Charity School, Finedon

Shropshire

  • Preston Hospital School, Preston upon the Weald Moors

Somerset

  • Stephen's Asylum, Frome

Staffordshire

  • Lady D Grey's Free School, Forton
  • Blue Coat School, Wolverhampton

Sussex

Warwickshire

  • Blue Coat School, Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
  • Blue Coat School, Priory Road, Coventry

East Riding of Yorkshire

  • Grey Coat School, Monkgate, York
  • Blue Coat School, St Anthony's Hall, Peaseholme Green, York

West Riding of Yorkshire

Scotland

Midlothian

Republic of Ireland

Co. Dublin

  • King's Hospital and Free School of Charles II (Bluecoat School), Oxmantown, Dublin