Weymouth College (public school)

{{Short description|Defunct public school in Dorset, England}}

{{For|the present-day establishment|Weymouth College}}{{Infobox school

| city = Weymouth

| county = Dorset

| country = England

| established = 1863

| closed = 1940

| gender = Boys

}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}

Weymouth College was a public school in Weymouth, Dorset, England, from 1863 to 1940.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/sets/72157629718410757/ flickr] 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.radipoleparish.f2s.com/staoldweymouthians.htm | title= Old Weymouthians | publisher= The parish of Radipole and Melcombe Regis | access-date=23 April 2013}} A new house was formed at Wellingborough to accommodate the 33 pupils who moved, and Weymouth House still exists; since 1989 it has been the girls' house of the school.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingboroughschool.org/?page=466|title=Weymouth Profile|publisher=Wellingborough School|access-date=26 April 2013}}

Weymouth College aimed "to provide for the sons of gentlemen a classical, mathematical and general education of the highest class".{{cite book|title=Patons list of schools and tutors|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/7036282501/in/set-72157629353287054/|year=1929|page=497}}

The building was designed by George Rackstraw Crickmay in 1864. Pevsner described the building as "The High Victorian style in a very debased form", and the chapel, 1894-96 as "really no better". In 1972 the building was in use as a College of Education.{{cite book|last1=Newman|first1=John|last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|title=Dorset|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmkxchFL57EC&q=%22weymouth+college%22+crickmay&pg=PA452|access-date=23 April 2013|series=Pevsner architectural guides: The buildings of England|year=1972|publisher=Yale UP|isbn=9780300095982|page=452}} It is now a residential conversion. Some of the chapel furnishings are in St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, Weymouth.