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- Members of St. Phillips Church united to build a Charity School to educate Birmingham’s poorest children. On 29 September, a small piece of the St. Philip’s Churchyard was leased and the School’s construction began. On 9 August 1724: 32 boys and 20 girls became the first Blue Coat pupils, funded by subscription.
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Liverpool Blue Coat School can trace its origins back to 1708 when a request was made to the mayor and town council of Liverpool for support in “building a School, for teaching poor children to read, write, etc.”
On 9 August 1724: 32 boys and 20 girls became the first Blue Coat pupils, funded by subscription. These children were clothed, fed and educated in the School, taking them off the streets and educating them in Christianity and in academic studies.
Liverpool Blue Coat School for orphaned children. They built a modest building belonging to St Peter’s Church opposite the present Bluecoat (originally spelt as two words, after the school moved out the building is referred to as ‘Bluecoat’). The coats worn by pupils were blue, denoting charity.
A bluecoat school is a type of charity school in England, the first of which was founded in the 16th century. Most of them have closed; some remain open as schools, often on different sites, and some of the original buildings have been adapted for other purposes.
The Blue Coat School has a proud history and heritage within the Oldham area. Our Founder, Thomas Henshaw, was a committed Anglican who left a bequest in his will to fund a school which would provide education for the orphaned boys of the parish.
Before it became an arts centre, the building housed a charity school for nearly 200 years. The Liverpool Blue Coat School, also referred to as the Charity School or the Blue Coat Hospital, was the original occupier of the present Bluecoat building in School Lane.
The School was established near St Mary’s Minster Church in Reading and was known by its original historic name of Aldworth’s Hospital, providing ‘Education and bringing upp of twenty poore male children’ and for a ‘Godly and learned man to be Schoolmaster’.
