This stone statue is located outside the entrance to St Thomas’ Hospital, and was built in 1682. The statue is one of two statues of the boy King, the other being a bronze statue that is a few metres away. Edward VI was the patron and re-founder of the hospital, and these statues are to commemorate this fact. The statue was designed by Thomas Cartwright, and was restored in 1990. The statue stood outside the original St Thomas’s Hospital on Borough High Street, and was moved in 1870.
