[1] The friary stood on the north side of the town (grid reference SY693909), on the banks of the River Frome, a little east of the site of Dorchester Castle.
The Hospital of St John the Baptist in Dorchester was placed in their care by King Richard III of England, even though his predecessor, Henry VI, had given it to Eton College.
[1] Richard Yngworth, the newly appointed Bishop of Dover, had the task of dissolving the friary and seizing its assets on behalf of King Henry VIII of England, and the long-standing warden, Dr William Germen, eventually signed the deed of surrender at the end of September 1538.
Edmund Peckham, a cofferer in the King's Household, purchased the buildings and land and sold them on to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton in 1547.
Savage described it as "a long low and irregular building; the eastern part seemed to be the most ancient by three old windows.