Bluecoat School London antique print 1784

Bluecoat School, also called Housey and CH, but more properly Christ’s Hospital, is a school founded in the 16th century in Greyfriars, London. The Greyfiars was a Conventual Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London. The school being located in Newgate Street. Antique copper-plate engraving of Christ’s Hospital, Antique print from ‘The Antiquities of England and Wales’ by Francis Grose, dated Oct 12; 1784. Size of engraved area approx. 5x6ins. Paper size approx. 11 x 7 inches.