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 in 1719, t...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Raine's House - charity boy
The statue is said to contain an urn with earth from Chopin's birthplace in Poland. Princess Alice unveiled the statue in 1975, and her ...
There are two plaques on the blue bench behind the statues: Plaque 1: The characters for this Portrait Bench chosen by your community ce...
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door. Erected in 1905, Carnegi...
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