BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA (1813-58)

Christ's Hospital was founded at its present site in 1553 as a hospital for orphans, to be administered by the Crown as a Royal hospital.  Almost from this time, boys were required to wear long blue coats, a belt and yellow stockings (see picture).  Years later a school was formed and became know as the Blue-Coat School.  Girls were gradually accepted.  In 1666 many of the buildings were burned in the great fire of London, but were rebuilt by the end of the century. In 1902 Christ's Hospital was moved to the Sussex region.  The London site was occupied by the Post Office and part of St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Christ's Hospital appears on the 1859 map as CHR HOS just north of Newgate Street at the bottom of cell J 20. 

Sources: 

Loftie WJ, Luker W Jr. London City -- Its History, Streets, Traffic, Buildings, and People, 1891.

Weinreb B, Hibbert C (eds). The London Encyclopaedia, 1993.