[1] It closed during the Second World War because of the risks from its proximity to naval bases at Weymouth and Portsmouth, and the boys and some staff moved to Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire.
[3] Weymouth College aimed "to provide for the sons of gentlemen a classical, mathematical and general education of the highest class".
Pevsner described the building as "The High Victorian style in a very debased form", and the chapel, 1894-96 as "really no better".
Some of the chapel furnishings are in St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, Weymouth.
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