Blue Boy, Devon
- Located in Exeter, Devon, South West England, England
- An Exeter City landmark, the Blue Boy once stood in the courtyard of St John's Hospital School
- Inscription reads: 'This statue of a blue boy stood in the courtyard of Saint John's Hospital School founded on this site as a bluecoat school by the Chamber of Exeter A.D.1636 in the dissolved medieval hospital of Saint John the Baptist. The school continued until 1931 in new buildings erected in 1859 which were destroyed by enemy action on May 4th 1942'
- By James Penman
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