diff --git a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlock.php b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlock.php
index c749a195af7..d3cada45820 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlock.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlock.php
@@ -7,13 +7,10 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\views\Plugin\Block;
 
-use Drupal\block\BlockBase;
 use Drupal\Component\Annotation\Plugin;
 use Drupal\Core\Annotation\Translation;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageControllerInterface;
 use Drupal\Component\Utility\Xss;
-use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;
-use Drupal\views\ViewExecutableFactory;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
 
 /**
@@ -26,85 +23,7 @@ use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
  *   derivative = "Drupal\views\Plugin\Derivative\ViewsBlock"
  * )
  */
-class ViewsBlock extends BlockBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {
-
-  /**
-   * The View executable object.
-   *
-   * @var \Drupal\views\ViewExecutable
-   */
-  protected $view;
-
-  /**
-   * The display ID being used for this View.
-   *
-   * @var string
-   */
-  protected $displayID;
-
-  /**
-   * Indicates whether the display was successfully set.
-   *
-   * @var bool
-   */
-  protected $displaySet;
-
-  /**
-   * Constructs a Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginBase object.
-   *
-   * @param array $configuration
-   *   A configuration array containing information about the plugin instance.
-   * @param string $plugin_id
-   *   The plugin_id for the plugin instance.
-   * @param array $plugin_definition
-   *   The plugin implementation definition.
-   * @param \Drupal\views\ViewExecutableFactory $executable_factory
-   *   The view executable factory.
-   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageControllerInterface $storage_controller
-   *   The views storage controller.
-   */
-  public function __construct(array $configuration, $plugin_id, array $plugin_definition, ViewExecutableFactory $executable_factory, EntityStorageControllerInterface $storage_controller) {
-    $this->pluginId = $plugin_id;
-    list($plugin, $delta) = explode(':', $this->getPluginId());
-    list($name, $this->displayID) = explode('-', $delta, 2);
-    // Load the view.
-    $view = $storage_controller->load($name);
-    $this->view = $executable_factory->get($view);
-    $this->displaySet = $this->view->setDisplay($this->displayID);
-
-    parent::__construct($configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container, array $configuration, $plugin_id, array $plugin_definition) {
-    return new static(
-      $configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition,
-      $container->get('views.executable'),
-      $container->get('plugin.manager.entity')->getStorageController('view')
-    );
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Overrides \Drupal\block\BlockBase::access().
-   */
-  public function access() {
-    return $this->view->access($this->displayID);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Overrides \Drupal\block\BlockBase::form().
-   */
-  public function buildConfigurationForm(array $form, array &$form_state) {
-    $form = parent::buildConfigurationForm($form, $form_state);
-
-    // Set the default label to '' so the views internal title is used.
-    $form['label']['#default_value'] = '';
-    $form['label']['#access'] = FALSE;
-
-    return $form;
-  }
+class ViewsBlock extends ViewsBlockBase {
 
   /**
    * {@inheritdoc}
@@ -144,6 +63,8 @@ class ViewsBlock extends BlockBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {
     if ($this->displaySet) {
       return $this->view->display_handler->blockForm($this, $form, $form_state);
     }
+
+    return array();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -164,31 +85,6 @@ class ViewsBlock extends BlockBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Converts Views block content to a renderable array with contextual links.
-   *
-   * @param string|array $output
-   *   An string|array representing the block. This will be modified to be a
-   *   renderable array, containing the optional '#contextual_links' property (if
-   *   there are any contextual links associated with the block).
-   * @param string $block_type
-   *   The type of the block. If it's 'block' it's a regular views display,
-   *   but 'exposed_filter' exist as well.
-   */
-  protected function addContextualLinks(&$output, $block_type = 'block') {
-    // Do not add contextual links to an empty block.
-    if (!empty($output)) {
-      // Contextual links only work on blocks whose content is a renderable
-      // array, so if the block contains a string of already-rendered markup,
-      // convert it to an array.
-      if (is_string($output)) {
-        $output = array('#markup' => $output);
-      }
-      // Add the contextual links.
-      views_add_contextual_links($output, $block_type, $this->view, $this->displayID);
-    }
-  }
-
   /**
    * Generates a views block instance ID.
    *
diff --git a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlockBase.php b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlockBase.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b90b3e67aa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsBlockBase.php
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Contains \Drupal\views\Plugin\Block\ViewsBlockBase.
+ */
+
+namespace Drupal\views\Plugin\Block;
+
+use Drupal\block\BlockBase;
+use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;
+use Drupal\views\ViewExecutableFactory;
+use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageControllerInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Base class for Views block plugins.
+ */
+abstract class ViewsBlockBase extends BlockBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {
+
+  /**
+   * The View executable object.
+   *
+   * @var \Drupal\views\ViewExecutable
+   */
+  protected $view;
+
+  /**
+   * The display ID being used for this View.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $displayID;
+
+  /**
+   * Indicates whether the display was successfully set.
+   *
+   * @var bool
+   */
+  protected $displaySet;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs a Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginBase object.
+   *
+   * @param array $configuration
+   *   A configuration array containing information about the plugin instance.
+   * @param string $plugin_id
+   *   The plugin_id for the plugin instance.
+   * @param array $plugin_definition
+   *   The plugin implementation definition.
+   * @param \Drupal\views\ViewExecutableFactory $executable_factory
+   *   The view executable factory.
+   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageControllerInterface $storage_controller
+   *   The views storage controller.
+   */
+  public function __construct(array $configuration, $plugin_id, array $plugin_definition, ViewExecutableFactory $executable_factory, EntityStorageControllerInterface $storage_controller) {
+    $this->pluginId = $plugin_id;
+    list($plugin, $delta) = explode(':', $this->getPluginId());
+    list($name, $this->displayID) = explode('-', $delta, 2);
+    // Load the view.
+    $view = $storage_controller->load($name);
+    $this->view = $executable_factory->get($view);
+    $this->displaySet = $this->view->setDisplay($this->displayID);
+
+    parent::__construct($configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container, array $configuration, $plugin_id, array $plugin_definition) {
+    return new static(
+      $configuration, $plugin_id, $plugin_definition,
+      $container->get('views.executable'),
+      $container->get('plugin.manager.entity')->getStorageController('view')
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function access() {
+    return $this->view->access($this->displayID);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function buildConfigurationForm(array $form, array &$form_state) {
+    $form = parent::buildConfigurationForm($form, $form_state);
+
+    // Set the default label to '' so the views internal title is used.
+    $form['label']['#default_value'] = '';
+    $form['label']['#access'] = FALSE;
+
+    return $form;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts Views block content to a renderable array with contextual links.
+   *
+   * @param string|array $output
+   *   An string|array representing the block. This will be modified to be a
+   *   renderable array, containing the optional '#contextual_links' property (if
+   *   there are any contextual links associated with the block).
+   * @param string $block_type
+   *   The type of the block. If it's 'block' it's a regular views display,
+   *   but 'exposed_filter' exist as well.
+   */
+  protected function addContextualLinks(&$output, $block_type = 'block') {
+    // Do not add contextual links to an empty block.
+    if (!empty($output)) {
+      // Contextual links only work on blocks whose content is a renderable
+      // array, so if the block contains a string of already-rendered markup,
+      // convert it to an array.
+      if (is_string($output)) {
+        $output = array('#markup' => $output);
+      }
+      // Add the contextual links.
+      views_add_contextual_links($output, $block_type, $this->view, $this->displayID);
+    }
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsExposedFilterBlock.php b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsExposedFilterBlock.php
index 577caa55f6d..3ef4ecdfad3 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsExposedFilterBlock.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/Block/ViewsExposedFilterBlock.php
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use Drupal\Core\Annotation\Translation;
  *   derivative = "Drupal\views\Plugin\Derivative\ViewsExposedFilterBlock"
  * )
  */
-class ViewsExposedFilterBlock extends ViewsBlock {
+class ViewsExposedFilterBlock extends ViewsBlockBase {
 
   /**
    * {@inheritdoc}
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ class ViewsExposedFilterBlock extends ViewsBlock {
     // contextual links.
     $this->addContextualLinks($output, 'exposed_filter');
 
-    $this->view->destroy();
     return $output;
   }
 
diff --git a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/Plugin/ExposedFormTest.php b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/Plugin/ExposedFormTest.php
index d491d1b0e1c..05b70354596 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/Plugin/ExposedFormTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/Plugin/ExposedFormTest.php
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 namespace Drupal\views\Tests\Plugin;
 
 use Drupal\views\Tests\ViewTestBase;
+use Drupal\views\ViewExecutable;
+use Drupal\views\Views;
 
 /**
  * Tests exposed forms.
@@ -19,14 +21,14 @@ class ExposedFormTest extends ViewTestBase {
    *
    * @var array
    */
-  public static $testViews = array('test_reset_button');
+  public static $testViews = array('test_reset_button', 'test_exposed_block');
 
   /**
    * Modules to enable.
    *
    * @var array
    */
-  public static $modules = array('views_ui');
+  public static $modules = array('views_ui', 'block');
 
   public static function getInfo() {
     return array(
@@ -102,11 +104,45 @@ class ExposedFormTest extends ViewTestBase {
     $output = $exposed_form->renderExposedForm();
     $this->drupalSetContent(drupal_render($output));
 
-    $expected_id = drupal_clean_css_identifier('views-exposed-form-' . $view->storage->id() . '-' . $view->current_display);
-    $this->assertFieldByXpath('//form/@id', $expected_id, 'Expected form ID found.');
+    $this->assertFieldByXpath('//form/@id', $this->getExpectedExposedFormId($view), 'Expected form ID found.');
 
     $expected_action = url($view->display_handler->getUrl());
     $this->assertFieldByXPath('//form/@action', $expected_action, 'The expected value for the action attribute was found.');
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Tests the exposed block functionality.
+   */
+  public function testExposedBlock() {
+    $view = Views::getView('test_exposed_block');
+    $view->setDisplay('page_1');
+    $block = $this->drupalPlaceBlock('views_exposed_filter_block:test_exposed_block-page_1');
+    $this->drupalGet('test_exposed_block');
+
+    // Test there is an exposed form in a block.
+    $xpath = $this->buildXPathQuery('//div[@id=:id]/div/form/@id', array(':id' => 'block-' . $block->get('machine_name')));
+    $this->assertFieldByXpath($xpath, $this->getExpectedExposedFormId($view), 'Expected form found in views block.');
+
+    // Test there is not an exposed form in the view page content area.
+    $xpath = $this->buildXPathQuery('//div[@class="view-content"]/form/@id', array(':id' => 'block-' . $block->get('machine_name')));
+    $this->assertNoFieldByXpath($xpath, $this->getExpectedExposedFormId($view), 'No exposed form found in views content region.');
+
+    // Test there is only one views exposed form on the page.
+    $elements = $this->xpath('//form[@id=:id]', array(':id' => $this->getExpectedExposedFormId($view)));
+    $this->assertEqual(count($elements), 1, 'One exposed form block found.');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a views exposed form ID.
+   *
+   * @param \Drupal\views\ViewExecutable $view
+   *   The view to create an ID for.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The form ID.
+   */
+  protected function getExpectedExposedFormId(ViewExecutable $view) {
+    return drupal_clean_css_identifier('views-exposed-form-' . $view->storage->id() . '-' . $view->current_display);
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_exposed_block.yml b/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_exposed_block.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0528a1d14cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_exposed_block.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+base_table: node
+core: '8'
+description: ''
+status: '1'
+display:
+  default:
+    display_options:
+      access:
+        type: none
+      cache:
+        type: none
+      exposed_form:
+        options:
+          reset_button: '1'
+        type: basic
+      filters:
+        type:
+          expose:
+            identifier: type
+            label: 'Content: Type'
+            operator_id: type_op
+            reduce: '0'
+          exposed: '1'
+          field: type
+          id: type
+          table: node_field_data
+          plugin_id: node_type
+          provider: views
+      pager:
+        type: full
+      query:
+        options:
+          query_comment: '0'
+        type: views_query
+      style:
+        type: default
+      row:
+        type: 'entity:node'
+        options:
+          comments: '0'
+          links: '1'
+    display_plugin: default
+    display_title: Master
+    id: default
+    position: '0'
+  page_1:
+    display_options:
+      path: test_exposed_block
+      exposed_block: '1'
+    display_plugin: page
+    display_title: Page
+    id: page_1
+    position: '0'
+label: ''
+id: test_exposed_block
+tag: ''