Fronting Dorchester Road is the former Weymouth College chapel, now converted to residential use.
Weymouth College was a public school set up in 1863 and amongst its former pupils were Stuart Hibberd of the B.B.C. and John Meade Falkner the author.
The chapel was run on strict Anglican Low Church lines and apparently Roman Catholic visitors, mistaking it for St. Augustine’s, a short way up the road, were seen to have rather mystified expressions before their somewhat embarrassed exits!
It closed in 1940 and the boys transferred to Wellingborough.
The buildings were used after the Second World War as a teacher training college, eventually becoming part of Bournemouth College of Technology which is now Bournemouth University. The courses were transferred to Bournemouth in 1984 and the site was occupied by Weymouth College which transferred from Newstead Road.
